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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, careful, censorious, characteristic, characterizing, choicy, choosing, choosy, circumspect, civilized, conscientious, considerate, constituent, contrastive, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discerning, discreet, discriminate, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elective, electoral, elegant, enlightened, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, keen, meticulous, nice, particular, peculiar, perceptive, perfectionistic, personalizing, picky, polished, politic, precise, precisianistic, priggish, provident, prudent, prudential, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, reflecting, reflective, scrupulous, select, selecting, selective, sensitive, separative, sophisticated, strict, subtle, tactful, thoughtful, well-advised, well-judged, wise
Dictionary Results for discriminating:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
discriminating
    adj 1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment
           especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye
           of the connoisseur" [ant: indiscriminating,
           undiscriminating]
    2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine
       distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and
       politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning";
       "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating
       insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute,
       discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike,
       penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Discriminate \Dis*crim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Discriminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Discriminating.]
   To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to
   separate from another by discerning differences; to
   distinguish. --Cowper.
   [1913 Webster]

         To discriminate the goats from the sheep. --Barrow.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Discriminating \Dis*crim"i*na`ting\, a.
   1. Marking a difference; distinguishing. --
      Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv.
      [1913 Webster]

            And finds with keen discriminating sight,
            Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white.
                                                  --Canning.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. making careful or fine distinctions, especially as to
      quality or accuracy; as, a discriminating observer.

   Syn: discerning, perspicacious. [PJC]

   3. having a refined taste or excellent judgment; as, a
      discriminating taste.
      [PJC]

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