perceptive
adjectiveWord Family
- perceive verb
- perception noun
- perceptive adjective
- perceptible adjective (≠ imperceptible)
- (approving)
having or showing the ability to see or understand things quickly, especially things that are not obvious 理解力强的；有洞察力的；思维敏捷的 a highly perceptive comment 见地高明的评论 It was very perceptive of you to notice that. 你能注意到此事，真够敏锐的。 The article gives a perceptive analysis of the way bureaucracies work. 这篇文章深入分析了官僚体制的运行方式。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- (specialist or formal)
connected with seeing, hearing and understanding 感知的；视觉的；听觉的；感觉的；知觉的 our innate perceptive abilities 我们天生的五官感觉能力
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin perceptivus, from percept- ‘received, understood’, from the verb percipere ‘seize, understand’, from per- ‘entirely’ + capere ‘take’.