- 1(approving) having or showing the ability to see or understand things quickly, especially things that are not obvious a highly perceptive comment It was very perceptive of you to notice that.
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- 2connected with seeing, hearing, and understanding our innate perceptive abilities perceive verbperception nounperceptive adjectiveperceptible adjective (≠imperceptible)
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noun [uncountable]See perceptive in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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