Distinctive (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  2. having a special quality, style, attractiveness, etc.; notable.
adjective
  1. serving or tending to distinguish
  2. denoting one of a set of minimal features of a phoneme in a given language that serve to distinguish it from other phonemes. The distinctive features of /p/ in English are that it is voiceless, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive; /b/ is voiced, bilabial, non-nasal, and plosive: the two differ by the distinctive feature of voice
Distinctive (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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