Synonyms for discern
dɪˈsɜrn, -ˈzɜrndis·cern

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1. discern

   What we discern we see apart from all other objects; what we discriminate we judge apart; what we distinguish we mark apart, or recognize by some special mark or manifest difference. We discriminate by real differences; we distinguish by outward signs; an officer is readily distinguished from a common soldier by his uniform. Objects may be dimly discerned at twilight, when yet we can not clearly distinguish one from another. We descry (originally espy) what is difficult to discover. Compare DISCOVER; LOOK.

   Synonyms:
   behold, descry, discriminate, distinguish, observe, perceive, recognize, see

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1. discern

   Synonyms:
   descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceive

   Antonyms:
   overlook, confound, misdiscern

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apartverb

   detect with the senses

   "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

   Synonyms:
   bang, have it away, screw, acknowledge, recognise, deal, grapple, get along, choose, distinguish, greet, make love, discover, do, jazz, key, love, roll in the hay, separate, cut, neck, be intimate, signalize, accredit, name, pick out, eff, bonk, make do, spot, bed, do it, mark, have intercourse, realize, make out, manage, have sex, tell apart, select, secern, take, fill out, fill in, have a go at it, key out, tell, agnise, describe, secernate, sleep with, agnize, blemish, identify, contend, issue, fleck, hump, get laid, severalize, descry, have it off, sleep together, get by, signalise, write out, spy, cope, recognize, severalise, know, come, get it on, differentiate, complete, blot, fare, lie with, espy, realise, blob

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. discernverb

   Synonyms:
   discriminate, distinguish, note the distinctions of

2. discernverb

   Synonyms:
   perceive, see, discover, descry, behold, espy

3. discernverb

   Synonyms:
   discriminate, judge, make distinction

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1. discernverb

   Synonyms:
   perceive, discriminate, distinguish, see

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "discern":

   distinguish, identify, disentangle

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How to use discern in a sentence?

1. Covenant Akinlotan:

   As you grow and learn, you'll earn respect and discern your true path.

2. Randolph:

   If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.

3. Mahabharata:

   Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.

4. Benigno Aquino:

   I have faith in my bosses, the Filipino people (in not voting Marcos Jr into power), there's nothing that has caused me to change the faith that they are able to discern.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion.