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distinctive

adj
/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/

Etymology

From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.

  1. derived from distinctus

Definitions

  1. Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.

    • a product in distinctive packaging
    • Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.

  2. Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.

    • […]more judicious and distinctive heads...

  3. Characteristic, typical.

    • his distinctive bass voice
    • Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.

      • The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.

    2. Used to separate clauses in place of stops.

      • These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.

    3. Distinguishing a particular sense of word.

      • Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.

    4. A distinctive thing

      A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.

      • ...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...

    5. A distinctive accent.

      • A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.

    6. A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.

      • Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.

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Derived

biodistinctive, counterdistinctive, distinctive feature, distinctively, distinctiveness, distinctive paper, indistinctive, nondistinctive, undistinctive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distinctive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distinctive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at distinctive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA