Usually means: Aware of and understanding surroundings.
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  1. perceptive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perceptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perceptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perceptive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perceptive: Wordnik
  7. perceptive: Wiktionary
  8. perceptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. perceptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. perceptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. perceptive: Dictionary.com
  12. perceptive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Perceptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. perceptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. perceptive: Rhymezone
  16. perceptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. perceptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. perceptive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. perceptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. perceptive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. perceptive: Wordnik
  22. perceptive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. perceptive: Merriam-Webster

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  1. perceptive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. perceptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. perceptive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perceptive)

▸ adjective:  Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

Similar:
apperceptive, discerning, incisive, insightful, discriminating, penetrative, subtle, observant, quick-sighted, penetrating, more...

Opposite:
unperceptive, unaware, oblivious, ignorant, insensitive

Types:
intuitive, sensory, cognitive, emotional, psychological, more...

Phrases:
perceptive deafness, perceptive field, Perceptive Software, not perceptive, very perceptive or eager, more...

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Similar:
apperceptive, discerning, incisive, insightful, discriminating, penetrative, subtle, observant, quick-sighted, penetrating, more...

Opposite:
unperceptive, unaware, oblivious, ignorant, insensitive

Types:
intuitive, sensory, cognitive, emotional, psychological, more...

Phrases:
perceptive deafness, perceptive field, Perceptive Software, not perceptive, very perceptive or eager, keenly perceptive, deeply perceptive, being perceptive, detached perceptive aloof, more...

Colors:
    silver,     teal,     indigo,     lavender,     sage, more...



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