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

  • (..) Thank you Lestrade. My lord... I'm curious, Coward. Did you help Blackwood in all his murders. or just the one I prevented? Very distinctive, those hand made shoes of yours. But the price of quality is often the leaking print they leave Nonetheless I confess to being completely outmatched. (..)
    2009 Sherlock Holmes
  • (..) What're you looking at, half man? I'm looking at you. Hmm, very distinctive faces. All of you. And what do you care about our faces? It's just I think they would look marvelous (..)
    2011 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: Lord Snow Season: 1 Episode 3
  • (..) 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