Perceptive is an English word with synonyms like insightful or discerning. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Perceptive meaning
Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
Synonyms of Perceptive
Using Perceptive
- The main meaning on this page is: Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
- Useful related words include: sensory activity, insightful, apperceptive, discerning.
- In the example corpus, perceptive often appears in combinations such as: perceptive advisors, and perceptive, perceptive and.
Context around Perceptive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 1 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Perceptive
- In this selection, "perceptive" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, practical, director, making, advisors, youngster and shady stand out and add context to how "perceptive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a perceptive baldur s and also director perceptive advisors llc. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "perceptive" sits close to words such as achievers, acton and aether, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with perceptive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Despite his age, Souta is obedient and perceptive. (8 words)
Say what you want about David, but the man is perceptive. (11 words)
If only the writers and producers had been even half as perceptive. (12 words)
Perceptive, disturbing, mind-bending, and unafraid to explore the poison that infects families living under the spotlight, this is a gripping read from the first page right through to the final, breathtaking dénouement. (33 words)
The Zone of Interest, but first, let me hop aboard the love train started by Bilge with and followed by Esther with a beautiful and perceptive take on Are You There God? (32 words)
Your practical, perceptive, super smart nature leads you into the territory of believing you know best (it’s true, you usually do) and being (dare I say) a little pedantic. (30 words)
The Zone of Interest, but first, let me hop aboard the love train started by Bilge with and followed by Esther with a beautiful and perceptive take on Are You There God? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although Sheila considered the idea that she was being paranoid, she also wondered if maybe she was just smart and perceptive.
But the perceptive youngster told that this is not possible unless he “hustles”.
Despite his age, Souta is obedient and perceptive.
Entertaining and perceptive, Shady Hollow is fast-paced and witty, with characters that jump off the page and a hugely satisfying mystery to solve’.
Harry is a perceptive, perfectionist, judgmental Virgo, while Meghan is a bold, charismatic, confident and spotlight-seeking Leo.
If only the writers and producers had been even half as perceptive.
Me, a rusted-on Labor supporter… my, my, you are so perceptive.
Perceptive, disturbing, mind-bending, and unafraid to explore the poison that infects families living under the spotlight, this is a gripping read from the first page right through to the final, breathtaking dénouement.
Say what you want about David, but the man is perceptive.
The Zone of Interest, but first, let me hop aboard the love train started by Bilge with and followed by Esther with a beautiful and perceptive take on Are You There God?
Your practical, perceptive, super smart nature leads you into the territory of believing you know best (it’s true, you usually do) and being (dare I say) a little pedantic.
Also, Director Perceptive Advisors Llc acquired 2,481,350 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, February 1st.
A perceptive Baldur's Gate 3 player online discovers a hidden new camp location after exploring Larian's expansive RPG for 700 hours.
But even the least perceptive observer would easily detect that it is all guile, forged altruism.
Christy’s masterpiece is unstinting in its depiction of working-class Dublin life while making perceptive observations about the human spirit.
Conrad made a perceptive comment during press: there’s a lot of rage underlying Cole’s comedy.
Davidtz plays the character of Nicola Fuller, mother to young, perceptive Bobo (Lexi Venter).
Investors participating in Perceptive Space’s funding round include Panache Ventures, Metaplanet, 7Percent Ventures, Mythos Ventures and AIN Ventures.
Much more perceptive, (Bel Powley), the heroic young woman who hid ’s family from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Perceptive Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Cytokinetics, Incorporated () in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Common combinations with perceptive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- perceptive advisors 11×
- and perceptive 7×
- perceptive and 7×
- is perceptive 5×
- the perceptive 4×
- more perceptive 3×
- are perceptive 3×
- perceptive of 3×
- perceptive little 2×
- perceptive enough 2×