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discretional |
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discretionary trust |
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discriminating
| discrimination
| discriminative
| discriminative stimulus
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discriminating
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective discriminating has 2 senses
- discriminating(a = adj.all) Array - showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" Antonym: undiscriminating
- discriminating(s = adj.all) acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp - having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
discriminating, adj.
1 able to discern, esp. distinctions.
2 having good taste.
1 able to discern, esp. distinctions.
2 having good taste.
Derivative
discriminatingly adv.
THESAURUS
discriminating
accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, careful, censorious, characteristic, characterizing, choicy, choosing, choosy, circumspect, civilized, conscientious, considerate, constituent, contrastive, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discerning, discreet, discriminate, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elective, electoral, elegant, enlightened, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, keen, meticulous, nice, particular, peculiar, perceptive, perfectionistic, personalizing, picky, polished, politic, precise, precisianistic, priggish, provident, prudent, prudential, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, reflecting, reflective, scrupulous, select, selecting, selective, sensitive, separative, sophisticated, strict, subtle, tactful, thoughtful, well-advised, well-judged, wiseROGET THESAURUS
discriminating
Discrimination
N discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism, nice perception, perception of difference, appreciation of difference, estimation, nicety, refinement, taste, critique, judgment, tact, discernment, acuteness, penetration, nuances, dope, past performances, discriminating, dioristic, discriminative, distinctive, nice, il y a fagots et fagots, rem acu tetigisti, la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, miles apart, a distinction without a difference.
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