Definition of distinctive

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

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Unman :: Unman (v. t.) To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like..
Indistinctive :: Indistinctive (a.) Having nothing distinctive; common.
Contradistinctive :: Contradistinctive (a.) having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
Charactery :: Charactery (n.) The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
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..
Characteristic :: Characteristic (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive..
Quality :: Quality (n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman..
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
Annihilate :: Annihilate (v. t.) To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees..
Brother :: Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character..
Man :: Man (n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
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..
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..
Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To call by a distinctive title; to name.
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..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..
Peculiarity :: Peculiarity (n.) That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
Cloth :: Cloth (n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession..
Humanitarianism :: Humanitarianism (n.) The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ..
Sexed :: Sexed (a.) Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition..
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