Synonyms and Antonyms of perceptive
1
able to sense slight impressions or differences
- due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound
accurate, clear, discerning, good, piercing, precise, receptive, sensible, subtle
hair-trigger, hyperacute, hypersensitive, oversensitive, supersensitive
bad, deadened, dimmed, dull, dulled, fading
dead, imperceptive, insensible, insensitive, numb
imprecise, inaccurate
2
having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledge
- a perceptive therapist was able to discover what was really troubling the youth
acute, penetrating, percipient, perspicacious
experienced
discriminating, discriminative
brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, smart
cerebral, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly
astute, clearheaded, piercing, sharp, shrewd
contemplative, reflective, thoughtful
dense, dull, obtuse, purblind, woodenheaded
brainless, dumb, feebleminded, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, moronic, silly, simple, slow, slow-witted, stupid, thoughtless, unintelligent, witless
undiscriminating
