distinctive
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 13.44 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
a product in distinctive packaging
- adjective Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- adjective Characteristic, typical.
his distinctive bass voice
- adjective Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- adjective Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
- adjective Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- noun A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- noun A distinctive accent.
Similar words
distinguishing typical identifiable characteristic identifying classifiable distinguishable specific differential special
Often followed by
features feature and character characteristics of in about characteristic
Word family
distinct distinction distinctions distinctively distinctiveness distinctivenesses distinctly
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