distinctive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
    — ...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...
  2. A distinctive accent. Hebrew
    — A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.
  3. A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
    — Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.
形容词 adj.
  1. Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
    — a product in distinctive packaging
  2. Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. rare
    — […]more judicious and distinctive heads...
  3. Characteristic, typical.
    — his distinctive bass voice
  4. Distinguished, being distinct in character or position. rare
    — The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.
  5. Used to separate clauses in place of stops. Hebrew
    — These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.
  6. Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
    — Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.

词形变化

more distinctive comparative most distinctive superlative distinctives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biodistinctive counterdistinctive distinctive feature distinctively distinctiveness distinctive paper indistinctive nondistinctive undistinctive
相关词
contradistinctive distinct distinction distinguish distinguishable distinguishness

词源

词源 1
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
词源 2
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
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