What part of speech is discerning?

Discerning can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. discerning is a verb, gerund of discern (infinitive).
  • 2. discerning is an adjective.

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Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • discerning 
    more discerning
    most discerning
  • Positive: discerning 
  • Comparative: more discerning
  • Superlative: most discerning

What does discerning mean?

Definitions

Adjective
discerning - having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
discerning - unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
discerning - able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
discerning - quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Verb
discern - detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
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Examples of discerning

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1. adj. A discerning critic.
2. adj. A discerning reader.
3. adj. A discerning editor.
4. adj. Discerning taste.
5. adj. A discerning eye for color.
6. adj. Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.
7. verb It is hard to discern between the true and the false.
8. verb The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be.
9. verb However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.
10. verb He can't discern fact from fiction.
11. verb With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires.
12. verb Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
13. verb I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love.
14. verb While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern.
15. verb He just talks, he don't discern.
16. verb The sun had now risen, and showed its broad disk above the eastern sea, so that he could easily discern the horseman who rode towards him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own.
17. verb She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.
18. verb In every society, we discern a series of socialization mechanisms to make our coexistence with the others possible.
19. verb It is hard to discern between the true and the false.
20. verb The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be.
21. verb However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.
Sentence  
adj.
A discerning critic.
A discerning reader.
A discerning editor.
Discerning taste.
A discerning eye for color.
Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.
verb
It is hard to discern between the true and the false.
The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be.
However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.
He can't discern fact from fiction.
With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires.
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love.
While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern.
He just talks, he don't discern.
The sun had now risen, and showed its broad disk above the eastern sea, so that he could easily discern the horseman who rode towards him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own.
She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.
In every society, we discern a series of socialization mechanisms to make our coexistence with the others possible.
It is hard to discern between the true and the false.
The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be.
However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.
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