Distinctive

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  • adjective. Serving to identify; distinguishing or characteristic.
  • adjective. Distinguished or attractive.
  • adjective. Phonemically relevant and capable of conveying a difference in meaning, as nasalization in the initial sound of mat versus bat.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Marking distinction, difference, or peculiarity; distinguishing from something diverse; characteristic: as, distinctive names or titles; the distinctive characteristics of a species.
  • Having the power to distinguish and discern; discerning.
  • noun. A distinctive mark; specifically, in Hebrew grammar, a distinctive accent. There are 26 of these — 18 disjunctive and 8 conjunctive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.
  • adjective. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. that serves to distinguish between things
  • adjective. that is characteristic or typical of something
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. capable of being classified
  • adjective. of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
    • Word Usage
    "The next, a more reasoning and original tone of thought as respects our own distinctive principles and _distinctive situation_, with a total indifference to the theories that have been broached to sustain an alien and an antagonist system, in"
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