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discriminative
[ dih-skrim-uh-ney-tiv, -nuh-tiv ]
adjective
- constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- making distinctions; discriminating. discriminating.
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Other Words From
- dis·crimi·native·ly adverb
- nondis·crimi·native adjective
- nondis·crimi·native·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of discriminative1
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Example Sentences
The Pekingese are very discriminative and frequently condescendingly refer to all other Chinese as "outside men" or "foreigners."
Compunction at incipient crime, and gratitude to find its punishment so mercifully speedy, so lenient, so discriminative?
The retentive power works up to the height of the discriminative power; it can do no more.
In him the discriminative sensory perceptions kept pace with great intellectual activities—attention and judgment.
Of him his best friend, Sydney Smith, left a short but discriminative character.
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