It is the process of star birth that gives N11 its distinctive look.
Some family names almost beg for a distinctive given name.
Their location and characteristic patterns are often distinctive.
Great wines, almost everyone can agree, are distinctive.
Newspapers are becoming more distinctive and customer-focused.
With care paid to each image, this is a charming, distinctive primer.
This 20- to 35-foot tree has distinctive shiny green bark with white stripes.
The online medium also makes for very distinctive, even surprising bestsellers.
Those colors are as distinctive to each element as fingerprints are to people.
The animation is spectacular, with smooth movements and distinctive expressions.
British Dictionary definitions for distinctive
distinctive
/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/
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
Derived Forms
distinctively, adverb distinctiveness, noun
Word Origin and History for distinctive
adj.
early 15c., from Old French distinctif and directly from Medieval Latin distinctivus, from Latin distinct-, past participle of distinguere (see distinguish). Meaning "markedly individual" is from 1580s. Related: Distinctively; distinctiveness.