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/dɪstˈɪŋktɪv/
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[ US /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of being classified
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of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
that is typical of you!
Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor
How To Use distinctive In A Sentence
- If head-to-toe leopard seems a bit too Big Cat Diary to appeal, then a waterproof rucksack or bumbag in the same print are an easy way to add a distinctive touch to a more classic outfit. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- And this, to my mind, is his distinctive failing as a writer: that he has exalted charm and mannerliness above all else.
- Burbank worked out in his mind and by actual experiments _distinctive methods_ of development -- _development and changes along particular, definite lines. Certain Success
- We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
- She has a very distinctive way of walking.
- Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
- Lingonberries or cowberries are the fruit of a European relative of the cranberry, V. vitis-idaea; they have a distinctive, complex flavor. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Toledo'sdistinctive twisted streets and covered passageways evoke thecity's golden years as part of the Arab Empire.