selective

Speech parts

1. selective - Adjective

2. selective - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Selecting; tending to select.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

particular careful exacting discriminating discerning judicious discriminative picky restrictive choosy goldilocks specific limited elected picker
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Antonyms

catholic common easy random comprehensive compulsory
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Related terms

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. Bill Watterson

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. Ayn Rand

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. Richard Koch

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. Margaret Sanger

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. Boris Sidis

Close letter words and terms

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