Adjective: percipient
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more percipient |
| Superlative | most percipient |
Sample Sentences
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Fasting, yet not of want
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Percipient, he on that mysterious steed
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Had reach’d his resting-place,
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For expectation kept his nature up. [1801, Robert Southey, “The Sixth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 8:]
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[...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is. [1874, John Tyndall, Advancement of Science: The Inaugural Address of Prof. John Tyndall ... Delivered Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Belfast, August 19, 1874, New York: Asa K. Butts & Co., page 43:]
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Mehring was a well-read and percipient critic and quite aware of the difference between great and mediocre art. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:]
Adjectives inflected like percipient
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).