discerning

Adjective

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
  • discerning taste
    
  • a discerning eye for color
    

• quick to understand
  • a kind and apprehensive friend- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
  • a discerning editor
    
  • a discreet silence
    

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  • a discerning critic
    
  • a discerning reader
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  apprehensive , discreet