Japan has many distinctive traits.
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Distinctive
//dɪˈstɪŋktɪv//
Synonyms for "distinctive" (97 found)
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Related words (48)
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1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
9 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesrelated to
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
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3 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 17 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- fərqli adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- отличи́телен adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- характерен adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
Catalan
1 entries- distintiu adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Danish
3 entries- distinktiv adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- karakteristisk adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- særegen adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Finnish
4 entries- erottava adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- luonteenomainen adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- omaleimainen adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- persoonallinen adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
French
1 entries- distinctif adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Galician
1 entries- distintivo adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
German
4 entries- ausgeprägt adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- charakteristisch adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- kennzeichnend adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- unverkennbar adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Hungarian
1 entries- ismertető adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Mongolian
1 entries- онцлогтой adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Māori
1 entries- kōhure adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- særpreget adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- særpreget adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
Polish
3 entries- charakterystyczny adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- odróżniający adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- wyróżniający adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Romanian
1 entries- distinctiv adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Russian
4 entries- дифференциа́льный adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
- осо́бенный adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- осо́бый adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- отличи́тельный adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Spanish
3 entries- característico adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- definitorio adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
- distintivo adj (characteristic — see also characteristic)
Turkish
1 entries- farklı adj (distinguishing — see also distinguishing)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.
Source: tatoeba (707309)
With its distinctive Chinese features, the qipao enjoys growing popularity in the international world of high fashion.
Source: tatoeba (728057)
The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.
Source: tatoeba (814505)
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