Definition of Distinctive

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Definition of Distinctive
	Distinctive Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Related Definitions: And, Characteristic, Difference, Discern, Discriminating, Distinction, Distinguish, Distinguishing, Expressing, Having, Marking, Or, Peculiar, Power, The, To

Distinctive Quotations

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
Benjamin E. Mays

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning Hamilton

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
Ethel Merman

An absolutely different and distinctive character.
George Edmund Street

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
Penelope Lively

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
Todd Solondz

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
Ruben Blades

Distinctive Translations

distinctive in Dutch is karakteristiek, zich onderscheidend
distinctive in Portuguese is distintivo
distinctive in Spanish is distintivo

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