English
Etymology
From Latin perceptīvus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “By what means? A borrowing? Perhaps through Old French and Middle English?”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
perceptive (comparative more perceptive, superlative most perceptive)
- Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
Derived terms
Translations
having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
- Bulgarian: възприемчив (bg) (vǎzpriemčiv), схватлив (bg) (shvatliv)
- Catalan: aperceptiu
- Czech: vnímavý m
- Danish: opmærksom (da), klarsynet
- Dutch: opmerkzaam (nl), scherpzinnig (nl)
- Esperanto: akrasenta
- Finnish: havaintokykyinen, tarkkanäköinen (fi), terävä (fi)
- French: perspicace (fr), pertinent (fr), perceptif (fr)
- German: scharfsinnig (de), einfühlsam (de)
- Greek: οξυδερκής (el) (oxyderkís)
- Ancient Greek: αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós)
- Hungarian: értelmes (hu), éles eszű, éles szemű, jó szemű, figyelmes (hu), jó felfogású, gyors felfogóképességű, jó megfigyelő, jó megfigyelőképességű
- Irish: airitheach, braiteach, céadfach, céadfaíoch, grinn, léirsteanach, mothaitheach
- Italian: perspicace (it), acuto (it)
- Latin: sagāx, perceptīvus, perspicāx
- Macedonian: про́никлив (prónikliv), воспри́емчив (vospríemčiv)
- Portuguese: perspicaz (pt), perceptivo (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: perspicace (ro), perceptiv (ro)
- Russian: восприи́мчивый (ru) (vospriímčivyj)
- Spanish: perspicaz (es)
- Swedish: insiktsfull (sv), klarsynt (sv)
- Tagalog: watasin
- Turkish: idrak sahibi
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Anagrams
French
Adjective
perceptive
- feminine singular of perceptif