Percipient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Percipient \Per*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. percipiens, -entis, p. pr. of
     percipere. See {Perceive}.]
     Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a
     percipient being. --Bentley. -- n. One who, or that which, is
     percipient. --Glanvill.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  percipient
       adj : characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear
             mind"; "a percipient author" [syn: {clear}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "percipient":
     acute, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending,
     apprehensive, argute, astute, aware, cogent, cognizant,
     comprehending, conscious, discerning, farseeing, farsighted,
     foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, incisive,
     insightful, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded,
     longsighted, mindful, omniscient, penetrating, perceptive,
     perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, prehensile, provident,
     sagacious, sensible, shrewd, trenchant, understanding, wise