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selective

  • adjective
  • /səˈlɛktɪv/

Of or relating to the process of selection.

Other meanings

  1. Of or relating to natural selection.

    “selective pressure”

  2. Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.

    “He's very selective and spent hours in the store choosing a new shirt.”

Related words

  • anxioselective
  • atroposelective
  • autoselective
  • cardioselective
  • celecoxib
  • chemoselective
  • counterselective
  • cytoselective
  • enantioselective
  • hepatoselective
  • immunoselective
  • isoselective

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “selective” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.