percipient

1. 1.

   a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

   Synonymsperceiverobserverbeholder

   Broaderperson

   Narrowereyeglass wearerfinderheareraudilemotilenoticerseerspectatorvisualizerwitness

1. 1.

   characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving

   “clear mind”

   “a percipient author”

   Synonymsclear

   Similardiscerning

Other forms of percipient

plural

percipients·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about percipient

What does percipient mean?

percipient means "a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in percipient?

percipient has 4 syllables: per-cip-i-ent. The stress falls on "cip". In IPA it is /pɚˈsɪpiənt/.

What is another word for percipient?

Close synonyms include perceiver, observer, beholder, clear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is percipient a common word?

percipient is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with percipient?

2 words rhyme with percipient. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.