Synonyms for perceive

Grammar : Verb

Spell : per-seev

Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsiv

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Définition of perceive

Origin : c.1300, via Anglo-French parceif, Old North French *perceivre (Old French perçoivre) "perceive, notice, see; recognize, understand," from Latin percipere "obtain, gather, seize entirely, take possession of," also, figuratively, "to grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend," literally "to take entirely," from per "thoroughly" (see per) + capere "to grasp, take" (see capable).
Replaced Old English ongietan. Both the Latin senses were in Old French, though the primary sense of Modern French percevoir is literal, "to receive, collect" (rents, taxes, etc.), while English uses the word almost always in the metaphorical sense. Related: Perceived; perceiving.

verb notice, see
verb understand

Example sentences :

I cannot perceive that our own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter.
Extract from : « The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And Buck was just sober enough to perceive that he was being held lightly.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

We perceive God through the soul as we feel air on the body.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

The more we perceive of power the more we are freed from fear.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

I perceive in your eyes, my indulgent spectators, the criticism which you are too kind to utter.
Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had an intuitive feeling that unless she moved he would not perceive her.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

I was proud, and was most careful that nobody should perceive this.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

It is the brain's business to perceive, to think, to will, to act.
Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan

I had the pleasure to perceive that Cecilia Delamere did not find me a fool.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

"I perceive that you are learned as you are beautiful," and he bowed courteously.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

Antonyms for perceive

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