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词汇 percipient
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Definition of percipient in English:

percipient

adjective pəˈsɪpɪəntpərˈsɪpiənt
  • Having good insight or understanding; perceptive.

    (人)目光敏锐的,观察深刻的;有感知能力的;有洞察力的

    he is a percipient interpreter of the public mood

    他是一个目光敏锐的公众情绪的诠释者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nevertheless, is it the case that the ‘auctioneers’ are without doubt the more percipient of the regulators?
    • My friend was far more informed, articulate, and percipient than I was.
    • In chapter 2, which examines the British case, there are some percipient observations which counter the once familiar view that nothing in Britain matched the importance which American railroads exerted in their economy.
    • He never travelled to any of the European capitals outside Vienna, and he lacked percipient champions who could both recognize his worth and noise his talents abroad.
    • But the willpower of those percipient priests had stuck in his mind like a stupidly swallowed toothpick in the throat.
    • The ontological principle of sociality is a fundamentally evolutionary concept that describes reality as a process in which percipient events adjust to new situations and adapt themselves to a variety of consentient sets.
    • He is a percipient young man and can pick up opponents' weaknesses very quickly.
    • Always inclined to hypochondria, the valedictory volume of his diaries catalogues his decline with percipient accuracy.
    • In that, he may have been more percipient than he could have realised at the time.
    • The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute scrutinies.
    • It is lucidly and coherently structured around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into the nature not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus itself…
    • For years your columnist has been the smartest and most percipient commentator on matters political and was always ahead of the posse.
    Synonyms
    astute, perceptive, shrewd, discerning, perspicacious, sharp, sharp-witted, acute, penetrating, discriminating, clear-sighted, clear-eyed, far-sighted, intelligent, clever, canny, intuitive, quick, alert, sensible, judicious, wise, sagacious, sage, incisive, sharp-sighted, far-seeing, open-eyed, understanding, responsive, sensitive
    informal on the ball, smart, downy
    British informal suss
    Scottish &amp Northern English informal pawky
    North American informal heads-up
    dated long-headed
    rare argute
noun pəˈsɪpɪəntpərˈsɪpiənt
  • (especially in philosophy or with reference to psychic phenomena) a person who is able to perceive things.

    (尤指哲学或心理现象)有感知(或察觉)能力的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both judges and percipients may detect creases, marks, smudges, temperature differences or other artifacts that result if actual targets have been handled and then mixed in with targets from a pool for judging.
    • In both modes, three percipients would be used, and the individual mentations about each site would be combined into a single mentation pertinent to that site, which was to be ranked by an independent judge.
    • This instruction was necessary as some percipients seemed to have deployed protocols that may have encouraged retrocognition and precognition rather than real-time remote viewing.
    • The experimenter identified problems in visualization protocols, so percipients were instructed to formalize their visualization techniques amongst themselves.
    • Results indicated that one of the percipients ' reports should be evaluated with special caution.

Derivatives

  • percipiently

  • adverb

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin percipient- 'seizing, understanding', from the verb percipere.

Rhymes

impercipient, incipient, recipient

Definition of percipient in US English:

percipient

adjectivepərˈsɪpiəntpərˈsipēənt
  • (of a person) having a good understanding of things; perceptive.

    (人)目光敏锐的,观察深刻的;有感知能力的;有洞察力的

    he is a percipient interpreter of the public mood

    他是一个目光敏锐的公众情绪的诠释者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In chapter 2, which examines the British case, there are some percipient observations which counter the once familiar view that nothing in Britain matched the importance which American railroads exerted in their economy.
    • Always inclined to hypochondria, the valedictory volume of his diaries catalogues his decline with percipient accuracy.
    • For years your columnist has been the smartest and most percipient commentator on matters political and was always ahead of the posse.
    • The ontological principle of sociality is a fundamentally evolutionary concept that describes reality as a process in which percipient events adjust to new situations and adapt themselves to a variety of consentient sets.
    • In that, he may have been more percipient than he could have realised at the time.
    • It is lucidly and coherently structured around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into the nature not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus itself…
    • The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute scrutinies.
    • He is a percipient young man and can pick up opponents' weaknesses very quickly.
    • He never travelled to any of the European capitals outside Vienna, and he lacked percipient champions who could both recognize his worth and noise his talents abroad.
    • Nevertheless, is it the case that the ‘auctioneers’ are without doubt the more percipient of the regulators?
    • But the willpower of those percipient priests had stuck in his mind like a stupidly swallowed toothpick in the throat.
    • My friend was far more informed, articulate, and percipient than I was.
    Synonyms
    astute, perceptive, shrewd, discerning, perspicacious, sharp, sharp-witted, acute, penetrating, discriminating, clear-sighted, clear-eyed, far-sighted, intelligent, clever, canny, intuitive, quick, alert, sensible, judicious, wise, sagacious, sage, incisive, sharp-sighted, far-seeing, open-eyed, understanding, responsive, sensitive
nounpərˈsɪpiəntpərˈsipēənt
  • (especially in philosophy or with reference to psychic phenomena) a person who is able to perceive things.

    (尤指哲学或心理现象)有感知(或察觉)能力的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This instruction was necessary as some percipients seemed to have deployed protocols that may have encouraged retrocognition and precognition rather than real-time remote viewing.
    • In both modes, three percipients would be used, and the individual mentations about each site would be combined into a single mentation pertinent to that site, which was to be ranked by an independent judge.
    • The experimenter identified problems in visualization protocols, so percipients were instructed to formalize their visualization techniques amongst themselves.
    • Results indicated that one of the percipients ' reports should be evaluated with special caution.
    • Both judges and percipients may detect creases, marks, smudges, temperature differences or other artifacts that result if actual targets have been handled and then mixed in with targets from a pool for judging.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin percipient- ‘seizing, understanding’, from the verb percipere.

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