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perceived

Syllables: per·ceivedUK/pəˈsiːvd//pɚˈsivd/

perceived adjective: generally recognized to be true. Also the simple past and past participle of perceive.

Adjective

perceived (not comparable)

  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...2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6
  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.

Also used as

perceived is also the simple past and past participle of perceive.

perceived meaning in Telugu and Kannada

perceived in Telugu

గ్రహించినది, గ్రహించిన

perceived in Kannada

ಗ್ರಹಿಸಿದ, ಗ್ರಹಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ, ಗ್ರಹಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿದೆ

Examples of perceived in a sentence

  • Never gesture at someone using your middle finger: it may be perceived as an insult.
  • Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.
  • Participants perceived strength training as improving many aspects of their physical and mental health.

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Words formed from perceived

Phrases with perceived

Questions about perceived

What does perceived mean?
Perceived means generally recognized to be true.
What is perceived in Telugu?
Perceived in Telugu is గ్రహించినది, గ్రహించిన. See Perceived meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is perceived?
Perceived is an adjective.
How do you pronounce perceived?
Perceived is pronounced /pəˈsiːvd/ (UK).

Words near perceived in the dictionary

  1. perceivableness
  2. perceivably
  3. perceivance
  4. perceivancy
  5. perceive
  6. perceived
  7. perceived temperature
  8. perceived temperatures
  9. perceivedly
  10. perceivedness
  11. perceiver

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perceived (page history and authors); perceived (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); perceived (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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