10 Letter Words for Discerning
discerning, rescinding
9 Letter Words for Discerning
cindering, niderings
8 Letter Words for Discerning
cinerins, desining, desiring, disgenic, grinnies, inceding, indigens, nidering, residing, resining, ringside, scending, scerning, sdeining, sirening
7 Letter Words for Discerning
censing, cerning, cinders, cinerin, cringed, cringes, crining, deicing, derning, dicings, digenic, dineric, dingers, dingier, dingies, dinners, diriges, discern, discing, disring, endings, endrins, engirds, enrings, erinnic, ginners, ginnier, grinned, grinnie, incised, indices, indigen, indiges, ingines, insider, irenics, nidings, nigrine, reicing, reining, rending, rescind, resinic, ridings, rinding, rinsing, scening, scringe, seining, sending, sericin, siderin, siering, sinding, sirenic
6 Letter Words for Discerning
ceding, cedrin, cering, ciders, ciding, cinder, cising, crined, crines, cringe, crinid, deigns, deisin, dennis, derigs, dering, design, dicers, dicier, dicing, dieing, diners, dinger, dinges, dinics, dining, dinner, dirges, dirgie, dirige, drices, ending, endrin, engird, engrid, enring, ensign, erning, ginned, ginner, girned, girnie, greins, grices, grides, grinds, grised, icings, incend, incide, incise, indice, indies, indign, indris, ingine, inners, inring, inside, irenic, irides, irised, niding, nigers, reding, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, resing, ricine, ricing, ricins, ridges, riding, rigids, ringed, rinsed, rising, scride, scried, scrine, sdeign, sering, siding, signed, signer, sinder, singed, singer, sining, sinned, sinner, siring, snider
5 Letter Words for Discerning
cedis, cerin, cider, cides, cines, cires, creds, cried, cries, crine, crise, deign, deric, derig, derns, dicer, dices, digne, diner, dines, dinge, dings, dinic, dirge, disci, dregs, dreng, drice, dries, drinn, egrid, engin, erics, ering, genic, genii, genin, girds, giris, girns, girse, gnide, grein, grens, grice, gride, grids, grind, grins, iceni, icers, icier, icing, ignis, indic, indie, indin, indri, inger, inned, inner, irids, iring, nerds, nicer, nides, nidge, niger, niner, nines, niris, nisei, redig, regin, reign, reins, rends, renig, renin, resid, resin, riced, rices, ricin, riden, rides, ridge, rigid, rinds, rines, ringe, rings, rinse, risen, scend, scind, scrin, sdein, segni, sengi, seric, serin, sicer, sider, since, sined, singe, sired, siren, snide
4 Letter Words for Discerning
cedi, cens, cern, cide, cids, cigs, cine, cire, cred, cres, crig, crin, cris, deis, deni, dens, dern, desc, desi, dice, dier, dies, digs, dine, ding, dins, dire, disc, dreg, drie, dsri, ends, engr, engs, ergs, eric, erin, eris, erns, geds, geic, gein, geir, gens, gers, gids, gied, gien, gies, ginn, gins, gird, gire, giri, girn, gise, gren, grid, grin, gris, iced, icer, ices, ides, idic, incr, inde, indn, inne, inns, ired, ires, irid, iris, isdn, ised, neds, negs, nein, nerd, nice, nide, nidi, nids, nied, nies, nine, nisi, nsec, recd, recs, reds, regd, regs, rein, rend, renn, rgen, rice, ride, rids, ries, rigs, rind, rine, ring, rins, risc, rise, seir, send, serg, sice, side, sidi, sien, sier, sign, sind, sine, sing, sire, siri, sned, snig
3 Letter Words for Discerning
cdg, cdr, cen, cer, cgs, cid, cie, cig, cir, cis, cns, crs, csi, dec, deg, dei, den, der, des, die, dig, din, dir, dis, dsr, ecg, eds, eir, enc, end, eng, ens, erd, erg, ern, ers, esc, esd, esr, gcd, gds, ged, gen, ger, gid, gie, gin, gis, gns, grs, ice, ide, ids, ign, inc, ind, ing, inn, ins, ire, irs, ise, isn, ned, neg, nei, nid, nie, nig, nis, nne, rcd, rec, red, reg, rei, res, rid, rie, rig, rin, rnd, scd, sci, scr, sec, sed, seg, sei, sen, ser, sgd, sic, sie, sig, sin, sir, sri
Definitions for Discerning
[1] showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
[2] to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
[3] to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate: He is incapable of discerning right from wrong.
[4] to distinguish or discriminate.
[5] having or showing good taste or judgment; discriminating
[6] (tr) to recognize or perceive clearly
[7] to recognize or perceive (differences)
Words related to Discerning
penetrating, knowledgeable, piercing, perceptive, astute, insightful, knowing, acute, bright, brilliant, clever, critical, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sensitive, sharp
Words nearby Discerning
discarnate, discase, discectomy, discern, discernible, discerning, discernment, discerptible, discharge, discharge lamp, discharge printing
Origin of Discerning
1300–50; Middle English (< Old French ) < Latin discernere to separate, equivalent to dis- dis-1 + cernere to separate
Other words from Discerning
dis·cern·ing·ly , adverb
non·dis·cern·ing , adjective
un·dis·cern·ing , adjective
un·dis·cern·ing·ly , adverb
dis·cern·er , noun
pre·dis·cern , verb (used with object)
un·dis·cerned , adjective
Word origin for Discerning
C14: from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere to divide, from dis- 1 (apart) + cernere to separate
Synonyms for Discerning
astute, insightful, knowledgeable, penetrating, perceptive, piercing, knowing, acute, bright, brilliant, clear-sighted, clever, critical, gnostic, ingenious, insighted, intelligent, judicious, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, subtle, wise
