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Synonyms for discern
dɪˈsɜrn, -ˈzɜrndis·cern

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.2 / 5 votes

  1. discern

    What we discern we see apart from all other objects; what we discriminate we judge apart; what we distinguish we mark apart, or recognize by some special mark or manifest difference. We discriminate by real differences; we distinguish by outward signs; an officer is readily distinguished from a common soldier by his uniform. Objects may be dimly discerned at twilight, when yet we can not clearly distinguish one from another. We descry (originally espy) what is difficult to discover. Compare DISCOVER; LOOK.

    Synonyms:
    behold, descry, discriminate, distinguish, observe, perceive, recognize, see

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. discern

    Synonyms:
    descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceive

    Antonyms:
    overlook, confound, misdiscern

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 3 votes

  1. spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apartverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    bang, have it away, screw, acknowledge, recognise, deal, grapple, get along, choose, distinguish, greet, make love, discover, do, jazz, key, love, roll in the hay, separate, cut, neck, be intimate, signalize, accredit, name, pick out, eff, bonk, make do, spot, bed, do it, mark, have intercourse, realize, make out, manage, have sex, tell apart, select, secern, take, fill out, fill in, have a go at it, key out, tell, agnise, describe, secernate, sleep with, agnize, blemish, identify, contend, issue, fleck, hump, get laid, severalize, descry, have it off, sleep together, get by, signalise, write out, spy, cope, recognize, severalise, know, come, get it on, differentiate, complete, blot, fare, lie with, espy, realise, blob

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. discernverb

    Synonyms:
    discriminate, distinguish, note the distinctions of

  2. discernverb

    Synonyms:
    perceive, see, discover, descry, behold, espy

  3. discernverb

    Synonyms:
    discriminate, judge, make distinction

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. discernverb

    Synonyms:
    perceive, discriminate, distinguish, see

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "discern":

    distinguish, identify, disentangle

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How to use discern in a sentence?

  1. Susie Lee:

    Siren's touchstones always reference what I discern works in real life, give women the chance to send subtle cues of interest, men to show off a little of who they are, friends to recommend good men and people to make each other smile.

  2. Randolph:

    If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.

  3. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

    on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion.

  4. Mark Luschini:

    It is truly there that you will be able to discern what the likely tightening cycle goal for 2016 is (going) to look like, and I think that will give us a better sense as to what sectors will respond which way.

  5. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

    Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.


Translations for discern

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  • تبينArabic
  • забелязвам, разпознавам, съзирам, различавамBulgarian
  • wahrnehmen, erkennenGerman
  • διακρίνωGreek
  • discernir, vislumbrar, percibirSpanish
  • huomata, nähdä, erottaa, havaitaFinnish
  • discernerFrench
  • देख लेनाHindi
  • percepireItalian
  • 識別Japanese
  • 식별하다, 인지하다Korean
  • discernereLatin
  • rozróżniać, dostrzegać, zauważyć, rozróżnić, dostrzec, zauważaćPolish
  • percepe, discerneRomanian
  • распознава́ть, различа́ть, распозна́ть, различи́тьRussian
  • zbadať, rozoznať, uvedomiť si, pochopiť, rozlíšiť, všimnúť si, spozorovať, odlíšiť, postrehnúťSlovak
  • urskilja, skilja, se skillnad påSwedish
  • వివేకంTelugu
  • farketmekTurkish
  • سمجھتے ہیںUrdu
  • 辨别Chinese

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