Usually means: Aware of and understanding surroundings.
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  1. perceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. perceptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. perceptive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perceptive: Vocabulary.com
  5. Perceptive: Wordnik
  6. perceptive: Wiktionary
  7. perceptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. perceptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. perceptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. perceptive: Dictionary.com
  11. perceptive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Perceptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. perceptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. perceptive: Rhymezone
  15. perceptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. perceptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. perceptive: Free Dictionary
  18. perceptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. perceptive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. perceptive: Wordnik
  21. perceptive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. perceptive: Merriam-Webster.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. perceptive: Medical dictionary

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adjective:  Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

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