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Adjective discriminating has 3 senses
- discriminating - showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"
Antonyms: undiscriminating, indiscriminating, indiscriminate, uncritical, unperceptive, scattershot, unselective
- discriminate, discriminating - marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
- acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp - having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
Verb discriminate has 3 senses
- discriminate, know apart - recognize or perceive the difference
--1 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- discriminate, separate, single out - treat differently on the basis of sex or race
--2 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s PP
- discriminate - distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"
--3 is one way to recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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