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distinctive
/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/
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What does distinctive mean?
adjective
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
noun
- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- A distinctive accent.
- A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/
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Usually in cities each street has its distinctive color, and only now and then do the colors meet in close proximity.
Nothing, nevertheless, could be more unlike a wail than the most distinctive cry whereon the child of man catches his first breath.
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But what is distinctive of Kant is the way in which he apportions the shares of ourselves and the physical object respectively.