Usually means: Clearly identifiable as different or unique.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word distinctive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. distinctive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distinctive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distinctive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distinctive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distinctive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distinctive, distinctive: Wordnik
  7. distinctive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distinctive: Wiktionary
  9. distinctive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distinctive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distinctive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Distinctive, distinctive: Dictionary.com
  13. distinctive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Distinctive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Distinctive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. distinctive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. distinctive: Rhymezone
  18. distinctive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. distinctive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. distinctive: Free Dictionary
  21. distinctive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. distinctive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. distinctive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinctive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinctive: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See distinctively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
adjective:  (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
adjective:  Characteristic, typical.
adjective:  (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
adjective:  (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
adjective:  (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
noun:  A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
noun:  (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.
noun:  (theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.

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