distinctive
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distinctive
- /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/
Where it comes from
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (to push apart, to divide; see distinct) + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
adjective more distinctive · most distinctive
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing. a product in distinctive packaging
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. […]more judicious and distinctive heads...
- Characteristic, typical. his distinctive bass voice
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position. The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops. These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word. Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.
noun distinctives
- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic. ...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...
- A distinctive accent. A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.
- 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.
