1. distinctive - Noun
2. distinctive - Adjective
3. distinctive - Adjective Satellite
Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.
Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFinds 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