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Distinctive
Definitions
- 1 Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
"a product in distinctive packaging"
- 2 Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. rare
"[…]more judicious and distinctive heads..."
- 3 Characteristic, typical.
"his distinctive bass voice"
- 4 Distinguished, being distinct in character or position. rare
"The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people."
- 5 Used to separate clauses in place of stops. Hebrew
"These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense."
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- 6 Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
"Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them."
- 1 of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing wordnet
- 2 capable of being classified wordnet
- 1 A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
"...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here..."
- 2 A distinctive accent. Hebrew
"A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ."
- 3 A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
"Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives."
Etymology
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
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