Usually means: Perceive or recognize something clearly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. discern: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discern: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discern, discern: Wordnik
  7. discern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discern: Wiktionary
  9. discern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discern: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discern, discern: Dictionary.com
  13. discern: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discern: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DISCERN: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Discern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. discern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. discern: Rhymezone
  19. discern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. discern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. discern: Free Dictionary
  22. discern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. discern: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. discern: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discern: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discern: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discern: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discern: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See discernable as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To perceive differences.

Similar:
recognize, make out, distinguish, tell apart, pick out, tell, have an eye for, know, scent, differentiate, more...

Opposite:
indiscernible, indistinguishable

Types:
discernible, discernment, more...

Phrases:
discern by touch, to discern, may discern, hard to discern, opposite of discern, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, best, first, wise, few, present, spiritual, penetrating, surety, last, light

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     black,     charcoal,     smoke,     onyx,     platinum,     gunmetal,     shadow


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Similar:
recognize, make out, distinguish, tell apart, pick out, tell, have an eye for, know, scent, differentiate, more...

Opposite:
indiscernible, indistinguishable

Types:
discernible, discernment, more...

Phrases:
discern by touch, to discern, may discern, hard to discern, opposite of discern, unable to discern, discern between, more...

Adjectives:
scarce, best, first, wise, few, present, spiritual, penetrating, surety, last, light

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     black,     charcoal,     smoke,     onyx,     platinum,     gunmetal,     shadow



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