Sample Sentences for
perceptive
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    "That's very perceptive, son," said the sergeant.  (source)
    perceptive = insightful (demonstrating a superior ability to notice or understand things)
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    For a grease monkey slash volleyball player, he was pretty perceptive.  (source)
    perceptive = better at noticing things than most people
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    Ruth was amazed that her mother was so perceptive.  (source)
    perceptive = good at noticing things
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    All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive.†  (source)
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    Of course I feared his perceptiveness, what he might have seen of me, or even possibly thought in his young mind.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Ootek had been taught a few words of English by Mike, and his perceptivity was so excellent that we were soon able to establish rudimentary communications.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Brown perceptively analyzed the situation by saying, "We don't have no wheels on our feet, son."†  (source)
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    Chiron was more perceptive than your average horse-man.†  (source)
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    So much for his perceptiveness.†  (source)
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    The Japanese team, experts on the extra sensory Node, center of TP perceptivity, insisted that the Node was in curcuit with the Optic Nerve (it wasn't within two millimeters of same) and besieged Dr. Jordan with polite hissings and specious proofs.†  (source)
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    He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.†  (source)
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    Your last statement is really perceptive.†  (source)
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    Vague and quaint imaginings had haunted Sue in the days when her intellect scintillated like a star, that the world resembled a stanza or melody composed in a dream; it was wonderfully excellent to the half-aroused intelligence, but hopelessly absurd at the full waking; that the first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage; that at the framing of the terrestrial conditions there seemed never to have been contemplated such a development of emotional perceptiveness among the creatures subject to those conditions as that reached by thinking and educated humanity.†  (source)
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