Definition of distinctive

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Distinctive (a.) Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

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Note :: Note (n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
Distinctive :: Distinctive (a.) Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.
Racy :: Racy (superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
Flagship :: Flagship (n.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
Distinctive :: Distinctive (a.) Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.
Acid :: Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their n
Appellative :: Appellative (a.) Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
Humanist :: Humanist (n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title..
Individual :: Individual (a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities..
Form :: Form (n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance..
Distinguish :: Distinguish (v. i.) To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
Vegetative :: Vegetative (a.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal..
Phonography :: Phonography (n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters..
Undistinctive :: Undistinctive (a.) Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.
Brand :: Brand (v. t.) To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict)..
Immarginate :: Immarginate (a.) Not having a distinctive margin or border.
Crest :: Crest (n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet..
Contradistinctive :: Contradistinctive (a.) having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
Brother :: Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character..
Calico :: Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc..
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