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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discriminating \Dis*crim"i*na'ting\, adjective
1. Marking a difference; distinguishing. -- {Dis*crim"i*na'ting*ly}, adverb
And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. --Canning.
2. making careful or fine distinctions, especially as to quality or accuracy; as, a discriminating observer.
Syn: discerning, perspicacious. [PJC]
3. having a refined taste or excellent judgment; as, a discriminating taste. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discriminate \Dis*crim"i*nate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Discriminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discriminating}.] To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. --Cowper.
To discriminate the goats from the sheep. --Barrow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
discriminating
adjective
1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" [ant: {undiscriminating}]
2: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people" [syn: {discriminate}] [ant: {indiscriminate}]
3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: {acute}, {incisive}, {keen}, {knifelike}, {penetrating}, {penetrative}, {piercing}, {sharp}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "discriminating": accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, careful, censorious, characteristic, characterizing, choicy, choosing, choosy, circumspect, civilized, conscientious, considerate, constituent, contrastive, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discerning, discreet, discriminate, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elective, electoral, elegant, enlightened, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, keen, meticulous, nice, particular, peculiar, perceptive, perfectionistic, personalizing, picky, polished, politic, precise, precisianistic, priggish, provident, prudent, prudential, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, reflecting, reflective, scrupulous, select, selecting, selective, sensitive, separative, sophisticated, strict, subtle, tactful, thoughtful, well-advised, well-judged, wise
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