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Definitions: Perceptive |
PerceptiveAdjective1. Of or relating to perception; "perceptive faculties". 2. Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perceptive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Etymology: Perceptive \Per*cep"tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression perceptif.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: unperceptive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious. (aware). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Perceptive |
| English words defined with "perceptive": alert, alive, awake ♦ discerning, discreet, divine ♦ perceptively ♦ quick-sighted ♦ Sentiently, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted ♦ To lose one's self ♦ wise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perceptive": perceptive deafness ♦ rekrytering ♦ supraliminal tonal audiometry. (references) |
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Screenplays | You are a perceptive woman. (The Train; writing credit: Rose Vall; Franklin Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Perceptive Faculty 2 (2000) | |
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| "Perceptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.91% of the time. "Perceptive" is used about 275 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.91% | 272 | 17,812 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 275 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "perceptive": perceptive deafness. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
perceptive | 15 |
perceptive vision | 8 |
informatics perceptive | 5 |
inc perceptive vision | 3 |
biosystems perceptive | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "perceptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mendjehollë (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, intelligent, long-headed, patent, perspicacious, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, smart), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فهيم (discerning), مميز (characteristic, diacritical, differential, discerning, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive, distinguishing, judicial, peculiar, percipient, special, specific), متسم بالتبصر, مدرك (appreciator, apprehensive, aware, conscious, discerning, intelligent, knowing, perceptible, percipient, rational, reasonable), حاد الادراك, المدرك (grasper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отнасящ се до възприемането. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有洞察力. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vnímavý (impressionable, open-hearted, percipient, quick, receptive, responsive, susceptible, susceptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perceptuel, perceptiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | perceptief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حساس وباهوش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | havaintokyky (perceptive faculty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perceptif (perceptional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wahrnehmend (apprehending, descrying, perceiving, perceptively, perceptual, percipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοητικός, αντιληπτικόσ (perceptional), αντιληπτικός, οξυδερκήσ (clear-sighted, discriminating, far sighted, perspicacious, statesmanlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"יר תפיס" (quickwitted), קל תפיס" (shrewd), "מחשי (perceptional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | figyelmetlen (distrait, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, mindless, negligent, reckless, regardless, thoughtless, unmindful, unobservant, unperceptive), figyelmes valamire, érzékelõ (sensational, sensor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lekas mengerti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | percettivo (percipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tastagh (acute, acute keen-witted, considerate, discerning, keen, keen of mind, knowing, observant, percipient, politic, sagacious, vigilant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erceptivepay perceptivo (perceptiveness, percipient), recebimento (receipt, reception, recipiency). (various references) perceptiv (perceptional). (various references) воспринимающий (apprehensive, aprehensive, percipient). (various references) perceptivan, koji opaža. (various references) perceptivo (perceptual). (various references) skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), klarsynt (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, perspcacious, perspicacious), insiktsfull (knowledgeable, percipient). (various references) duяgur (impressionable, sensual). (various references) сприйнятливий (acquisitive, adoptive, alive, apprehensive, apt, cataleptic, facile, open minded, pervious, receptive, recipient, sensitive, susceptive), що сприйма", проникливий (acute, astute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd). (various references) nhận thức được (alive, percipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýaoxshtivañtem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "perceptive": perceptively, perceptiveness, perceptivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "perceptive": apperceptive, imperceptive, unperceptive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "perceptive": imperceptiveness, imperceptivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Perceptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perpective, proceptive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perceptive" (pronounced perse"ptiv) |
| 6 | -s e" p t i v | contraceptive, deceptive, receptive, unreceptive. |
| 4 | -p t i v | adaptive, adoptive, captive, corruptive, descriptive, disparages, disruptive, eruptive, preemptive, presumptive, redemptive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, cooperative, corrective, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, dispositive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, recuperative, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: preceptive. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-p-p-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: receptive. | |
-2 letters: erective, perceive. | |
-3 letters: creepie, evictee, percept, precept, precipe, receipt, receive. | |
-4 letters: cerite, peeper, peerie, peptic, piecer, pierce, privet, recept, recipe, recite, tierce, tipper, verite. | |
-5 letters: citer, civet, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, eerie, erect, evert, evict, evite, peeve, peter, piece, piper, pipet, price, recti, reeve, reive, retie, revet, rivet, tepee, terce, trice, tripe, viper. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-p-p-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: perspective. | |
+2 letters: apperceptive, imperceptive, perceptively, perspectives, unperceptive. | |
+3 letters: perspectively. | |
+4 letters: perceptiveness, perceptivities, photoreceptive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 65 70 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. -.-. . .--. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c e p t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718469718286758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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