- having a quality or characteristic that makes something different and easily noticed synonym characteristic
- clothes with a distinctive style
- The male bird has distinctive white markings on its head.
Extra Examples- Each district of the city has its own distinctive character.
- Good diagrams are the book's most distinctive feature.
- She heard the distinctive sounds of a Siamese cat.
- The car was silver with distinctive red stripes.
- The herb has a strong, distinctive, celery-like flavour.
- The kidnapper had a fairly distinctive voice with a Scottish accent.
- There was nothing distinctive about the envelope in which the letter came.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘serving to differentiate’): from late Latin distinctivus, from Latin distinct- ‘distinguished’, from the verb distinguere, from dis- ‘apart’ + stinguere ‘put out’.
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