Distinctive

/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
2. (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
3. Characteristic, typical.
4. (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
5. (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
6. (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
7. A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
8. (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.

Example Sentences

a product in distinctive packaging

Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.

[…]more judicious and distinctive heads...

his distinctive bass voice

Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.

The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.

These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.

Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.

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Word Forms

• more distinctive
• most distinctive
• distinctives

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