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perceived

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pəˈsiːvd//
  • United States//pɚˈsivd//

Generally recognized to be true.

adjective

  1. 1

    Generally recognized to be true.

    The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore

    In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

  2. 2

    As seen or understood by someone.

    In product design, where one deals with real, physical objects, there can be both real and perceived affordances, and the two need not be the same.

    Anger is a natural response in humans to perceived or actual threat or provocation.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of perceivesimple past and past participle of perceive

    The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).