distinctive
Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
Example
“a product in distinctive packaging”
Other meanings
Characteristic, typical.
“his distinctive bass voice”
Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
Synonyms
- typical
Related words
- biodistinctive
- counterdistinctive
- indistinctive
- nondistinctive
- undistinctive
- distinctive feature
- distinctively
- distinctiveness
- distinctive paper
Word history
From Latin "distinctus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “distinctive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.