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How to pronounce distinctive in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms classifiable
Derivation distinctiveness
Type Words
Synonyms typical
Derivation distinctiveness


Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor.

Examples of distinctive

distinctive
The birds'tracheas are coiled like French horns, giving them a distinctive call.
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There, he found a distinctive frill that didn't match anything previously known.
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In addition to which, the A4 allroad certainly has its own distinctive identity.
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It is a brilliant, masterly film with a distinctive force and artistic gravitas.
From the guardian.co.uk
The rat's most distinctive contribution to human ill health comes from its bite.
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The ends of the branches often drop, giving the tree a distinctive winter shape.
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While they were refreshing, there was little about them that proved distinctive.
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Today it boasts 40 workers and a fleet of 18 distinctive yellow delivery trucks.
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None have distinctive enough voices to give their participation any extra value.
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More examples
  • Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!"
  • Classifiable: capable of being classified
  • (distinctively) in an identifiably distinctive manner; "the distinctively conservative district of the county"
  • (distinctiveness) peculiarity: a distinguishing trait
  • (distinctiveness) disparateness: utter dissimilarity
  • Trademark distinctiveness is an important concept in the law governing trademarks and service marks. A trademark may be eligible for registration, or registrable, if amongst other things it performs the essential trademark function, and has distinctive character. ...
  • That serves to distinguish between things; that is characteristic or typical of something
  • (distinctiveness) the extent to which a person behaves in the same way across different situations. 595
  • (Distinctiveness) Eysenck and Eysenck (1980) asked participants to say words in a distinctive way, e.g. spell the words out loud. Such participants recalled the words better than those who simply read them off a list.