11 Letter Words for Distinctive
distinctive
9 Letter Words for Distinctive
dentistic, disinvite, indictive, viticides
8 Letter Words for Distinctive
dictiest, distinct, divinest, incisive, incitive, invicted, inviscid, sienitic, vindices, viticide
7 Letter Words for Distinctive
deistic, dentist, devinct, diciest, dietics, dietist, dinetic, distent, ditties, divines, identic, incised, incited, incites, indices, indicts, indites, initive, invised, invited, invites, sinitic, sitient, sittine, stinted, tidiest, tincted, tineids, tiniest, vindict, viniest, visited
6 Letter Words for Distinctive
cisted, citied, cities, civets, civite, ctenii, deiist, deisin, destin, dietic, dinics, divest, divies, divine, divise, divisi, edicts, encist, endict, ettins, evicts, iciest, ideist, incest, incide, incise, incite, indice, indict, indies, indite, initis, insect, inside, insite, intice, invect, invest, invict, invite, nicest, scient, seniti, sitten, stived, teiids, teinds, tidies, tincts, tineid, tinies, tinted, tintie, titien, vectis, vendis, vicine, vinted, viscid, viscin, visite
5 Letter Words for Distinctive
cedis, ceint, centi, cents, cesti, cetin, cides, cines, cited, cites, cives, civet, csnet, deist, dents, detin, dices, dicts, diets, dines, dinic, dints, disci, distn, dites, ditts, dives, divet, divis, dsect, dtset, edict, edits, entsi, ettin, evict, iceni, ident, idest, idite, indic, indie, indii, indiv, inset, intis, intsv, ivied, ivies, neist, nevis, nides, nisei, nitid, scend, scent, scind, sdein, senit, senti, sient, since, sined, sited, snide, snite, steid, stein, stend, stent, stied, stine, stint, stite, stive, teiid, teind, tends, tents, ticed, tices, tides, tiens, tinct, tinds, tined, tines, tints, tisic, titis, tsine, vedic, veins, vends, vents, viced, vices, vinci, vined, vines, vinet, vinic, vints, vised, visie, visit, visne, vitis
4 Letter Words for Distinctive
cedi, cens, cent, cest, ceti, cide, cids, cine, cist, cite, cits, cive, civs, deis, deni, dens, dent, desc, desi, deti, detn, devi, devs, dice, dict, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, disc, dist, dite, dits, ditt, dive, divi, divs, edit, ends, etic, iced, ices, ides, idic, inde, init, inst, inti, invt, isdn, ised, isnt, ivin, neds, nest, neti, nets, nevi, nice, nide, nidi, nids, nied, nies, nisi, nist, nits, nsec, scet, sctd, sect, seit, send, sent, sett, sice, side, sidi, sien, sind, sine, site, siti, sned, snit, sted, sten, stet, stid, stie, svce, teds, tend, tens, tent, test, tets, tice, tics, tide, tidi, tids, tied, tien, ties, tinc, tind, tine, tins, tint, tite, titi, tits, vein, vend, vent, vest, vets, vice, vide, vids, vied, vies, viii, vine, vins, vint, vise, vite
3 Letter Words for Distinctive
cen, cid, cie, cis, cit, civ, cns, csi, cst, cte, ctn, cts, dec, dei, den, des, det, dev, die, din, dis, dit, div, ect, eds, enc, end, ens, env, esc, esd, est, etc, ice, ide, ids, iii, inc, ind, ins, int, inv, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ive, ned, nei, net, nid, nie, nis, nit, scd, sci, sct, sec, sed, sei, sen, set, sic, sie, sin, sit, std, svc, tdt, tec, ted, ten, tes, tet, tic, tid, tie, tin, tis, tit, tnt, tsi, tst, vei, vet, vic, vid, vie, vii, vin, vis
Definitions for Distinctive
[1] serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
[2] having a special quality, style, attractiveness, etc.; notable.
[3] serving or tending to distinguish
[4] 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
Words related to Distinctive
singular, peculiar, offbeat, extraordinary, special, weird, original, idiosyncratic, cool, characteristic, diagnostic, discrete, distinguishing, excellent, gnarly, individual, outstanding, perfect, proper, separate
Words nearby Distinctive
distillers' grain, distillery, distillment, distinct, distinction, distinctive, distinctive feature, distinctiveness ratio, distinctly, distinguish, distinguished
Origin of Distinctive
1575–85; < Medieval Latin distinctīvus, equivalent to Latin distinct(us ) distinct + -īvus -ive
Words that may be confused with Distinctive
distinctive, distinguishable, distinguished
Other words from Distinctive
dis·tinc·tive·ly , adverb
dis·tinc·tive·ness , noun
sub·dis·tinc·tive , adjective
sub·dis·tinc·tive·ly , adverb
sub·dis·tinc·tive·ness , noun
Synonyms for Distinctive
cool, extraordinary, idiosyncratic, offbeat, original, peculiar, singular, special, weird, characteristic, diacritic, diagnostic, discrete, distinguishing, excellent, far cry, gnarly, individual, like night and day, outstanding, perfect, poles apart, proper, separate, single, superior, typical, uncommon, unreal, wicked
