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Synonyms for discern
dɪˈsɜrn, -ˈzɜrndis·cern
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 Antonyms
discern
Synonyms:
descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceiveAntonyms:
overlook, confound, misdiscern
Princeton's WordNet
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 Synonymes
discernverb
Synonyms:
discriminate, distinguish, note the distinctions ofdiscernverb
discernverb
Synonyms:
discriminate, judge, make distinction
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
discernverb
Synonyms:
perceive, discriminate, distinguish, see
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "discern":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#47 | do | |
#64 | see | |
#108 | name | |
#201 | know | |
#246 | take | |
#370 | love | |
#453 | select | |
#504 | come | |
#522 | complete | |
#569 | key | |
#604 | issue | |
#723 | tell | |
#834 | mark | |
#892 | choose | |
#1260 | bed | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2217 | manage | |
#2228 | separate | |
#2244 | identify | |
#2652 | jazz | |
#2915 | spot | |
#2995 | discover | |
#3114 | describe | |
#3680 | spy | |
#4051 | bang | |
#4094 | neck | |
#4730 | recognize | |
#4781 | realize | |
#7195 | screw | |
#7591 | observe | |
#8397 | acknowledge | |
#8972 | fare | |
#9848 | cope | |
#10269 | distinguish | |
#12168 | recognise | |
#12748 | realise | |
#13033 | eff | |
#14248 | behold | |
#15304 | perceive | |
#17787 | differentiate | |
#18781 | greet | |
#19611 | discriminate | |
#20325 | contend | |
#20422 | penetrate | |
#24566 | blot | |
#25503 | blob | |
#26968 | discern | |
#29554 | hump | |
#38502 | grapple | |
#41736 | fleck | |
#43554 | blemish | |
#66222 | bonk | |
#82079 | espy | |
#89015 | accredit | |
#97520 | disentangle | |
#274347 | descry |
How to use discern in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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