Sample Sentences for
perceptive
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    For a grease monkey slash volleyball player, he was pretty perceptive.  (source)
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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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    Ruth was amazed that her mother was so perceptive.  (source)
    perceptive = good at noticing things
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    Chiron was more perceptive than your average horse-man.†  (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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    She is brave, lovely and, ah-h-h, so perceptive, Jessica thought.†  (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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    All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive.†  (source)
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    This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.†  (source)
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