distinctive

Definition

  • adjective: having a quality or characteristic that makes a person or thing different from others
  • adjective: serving to 'distinguish'
  • synonyms: distinguishing, characteristic, peculiar

Examples

  • a cooking style that is 'distinctive' [='characteristic'] of this region

  • This wine has a more 'distinctive' flavor than that one.

  • The store sells only the most 'distinctive' chocolates.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) with permanent snows. The Matterhorn, its summit too steep to hold a snow field. Mont Blanc - the highest peak in Western Europe. The distinctive jagged shapes of the Alps were carved by those great mountain sculptors - the glaciers. Immense rivers of moving ice, laden with rock, (..)
    2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: Mountains Season: 1 Episode 2