distinctive
serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
having a special quality, style, attractiveness, etc.; notable.
Origin of distinctive
1Other words for distinctive
Other words from distinctive
- dis·tinc·tive·ly, adverb
- dis·tinc·tive·ness, noun
- sub·dis·tinc·tive, adjective
- sub·dis·tinc·tive·ly, adverb
- sub·dis·tinc·tive·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with distinctive
- distinctive , distinguishable, distinguished
Words Nearby distinctive
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How to use distinctive in a sentence
What does matter is the philosophy that the Mach-E will be distinctive, not generic.
Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E is an important leap into the future | Dan Carney | February 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI wish schools were better at talking about what makes them distinctive.
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With Bezos out as Amazon CEO, Zuckerberg is the last man standing | Elizabeth Dwoskin | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostIf we did not call it snowfall eve, it still seemed worthy of some distinctive designation.
On Saturday, blue sky gave few signs of gathering storm | Martin Weil | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostDifferent colonies have distinctive dialects, often varying in frequency, as can be heard by comparing these soft chirps from two separate colonies.
Naked mole-rat colonies speak with unique dialects | Jonathan Lambert | January 28, 2021 | Science News
He reminisces about the features of Texas life that make Texas its own, distinctive community.
He explains that these casks play a huge role “in the distinctive character of the final whisky.”
There are also multiple vectors of cool, each defined by distinctive attire.
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“This is the world we live in,” he says when I ask whether mens fashion will get more distinctive.
The Hot Designer Who Hates Fashion: VK Nagrani Triumphs His Own Way | Tom Teodorczuk | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach is surrounded by a gelatinous capsule, which is its distinctive feature (Fig. 9).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn estivo-autumnal malaria the gametes take distinctive ovoid and crescentic forms, and are not difficult to recognize.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe distinction is based chiefly upon etiology, although each type presents a more or less distinctive blood-picture.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe table on the following page contrasts the distinctive blood-changes in the more common conditions.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAlthough of various qualities, they possess the distinctive flavor which characterizes all tobacco used for this purpose.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for distinctive
/ (dɪˈstɪŋktɪv) /
serving or tending to distinguish
denoting one of a set of minimal features of a phoneme in a given language that serve to distinguish it from other phonemes. The distinctive features of /p/ in English are that it is voiceless, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive; /b/ is voiced, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive: the two differ by the distinctive feature of voice
Derived forms of distinctive
- distinctively, adverb
- distinctiveness, noun
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