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Discerning vs Acrid - What's the difference?

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Discerning is a related term of acrid.


As adjectives the difference between discerning and acrid

is that discerning is of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive while acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.

As a verb discerning

is .

As a noun discerning

is discernment.

discerning

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • discernment
  • * 1605 , , I. iv. 224:
  • Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied

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    acrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
  • Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
  • Synonyms

    * acerbic

    Antonyms

    *delectable, delicious, tasteful

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