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distinctive
[dih-stingk-tiv]
adjective
serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: distinguishing.
the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
Synonyms: individualhaving a special quality, style, attractiveness, etc.; notable.
distinctive
/ dɪˈstɪŋktɪv /
adjective
serving or tending to distinguish
denoting one of a set of minimal features of a phoneme in a given language that serve to distinguish it from other phonemes. The distinctive features of /p/ in English are that it is voiceless, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive; /b/ is voiced, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive: the two differ by the distinctive feature of voice
Other Word Forms
- distinctively adverb
- distinctiveness noun
- subdistinctive adjective
- subdistinctively adverb
- subdistinctiveness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of distinctive1
Example Sentences
A real estate investment trust with a 9% yield and a distinctive business model looks poised to deliver nice returns for investors after a successful spinoff from Lennar earlier this year.
The video showed a tall, lean man wearing a sky-blue T-shirt, dark blue shorts and distinctive striped sandals like those worn by Bipin on the day he was abducted.
The pits were detected using an AI model that was trained to scan publicly available Nasa images and identify pits based on their distinctive shape.
That changed in 2023 when Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang and her team in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science identified the first plant enzyme capable of twisting a molecule into the distinctive spiro shape.
According to the detective, the cooperator identified Quintero by his legal name, nickname and birth date — even describing a distinctive tribal band tattoo on his arm.
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