distinctive

Speech parts

1. distinctive - Noun

2. distinctive - Adjective

3. distinctive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

typical different particular special individual personal separate unique distinct notable unusual characteristic remarkable singular outstanding
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Antonyms

allied series similar like public common
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Phrases with the word

make distinctive distinctive smelling distinctive label distinctive combat distinctive flair distinctive effect

Examples

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. Ennio Morricone

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. Alexander Smith

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive. Benjamin Jowett

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. Charles Darwin

Close letter words and terms

distinctional distinctioning distinctionless distinctive achievement distinctive character distinctive combat