Distinctive Definition

dĭ-stĭngktĭv
adjective
Making distinct; distinguishing from others; characteristic.
Webster's New World
Distinguished or attractive.
American Heritage
Phonemically relevant and capable of conveying a difference in meaning, as nasalization in the initial sound of mat versus bat.
American Heritage

That is characteristic or typical of something.

Wiktionary

That serves to distinguish between things.

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Origin of Distinctive

  • From Old French distinctif, from Latin distinctivus

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Distinctive Sentence Examples

  • In these works his distinctive qualities were already revealed.

  • The skull of the driver bore the distinctive damage Howie had received in his earlier accident.

  • The distinctive feature of the Spanish-Jewish culture was its comprehensiveness.

  • Helen Keller became so rapidly a distinctive personality that she kept her teacher in a breathless race to meet the needs of her pupil, with no time or strength to make a scientific study.

  • Grant that the distinctive mark of our Order may be never to possess anything as its own under the sun for the glory of Thy name, and to have no other patrimony than begging" (in the Legenda 3 Soc.).

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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distinctive

Words Starting With D and Ending With E

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With D11 Letter Words Ending With E