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distinctive adjective & noun. LME.
[Late Latin distinctivus, from Latin distinct-: see DISTINCTION, -IVE.]
A. adjective.
Serving to differentiate or distinguish; peculiar to one person or thing as distinct from others, characteristic; having well-marked properties; easily recognized. LME.
distinctive feature Phonology a minimal feature (e.g. voice, labiality) distinguishing one phoneme from another.
I. D'Israeli Papist and Protestant now became distinctive names. C. N. Robinson A military organization, wearing a distinctive dress. C. G. Seligman Their products are sufficiently well characterized to be distinctive. W. Boyd He saw the distinctive baldheaded..figure of his father-in-law.
Having the faculty of perceiving differences; discriminating. rare. M17.
Having a separate or distinct character or status. rare. M19.
S. Smiles The refugees..ceased to exist as a distinctive people.
Hebrew Grammar. Of an accent: used in place of a stop to separate clauses. L19.
b. noun.
A distinguishing mark; a characteristic. E19.
M. B. Keatinge The red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here.
Hebrew Grammar. A distinctive accent. L19.
distinctively adverb (a) with distinction of treatment; separately, individually; (b) characteristically: E17.
distinctiveness noun (a) power of distinguishing; (b) distinctive character, force, tendency, etc.: M17.