distinctiveとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/

形容詞

distinctive (comparative more distinctive, superlative most distinctive)

1. Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
   • 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, Fol. V:

     Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.

   a product in distinctive packaging

2. (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Vol. II, Ch. iii, p. 75:

     ...more judicious and distinctive heads...

3. Characteristic, typical.
   • 1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Vol. III, p. 293:

     Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.

   his distinctive bass voice

4. (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
   • 1867, Samuel Smiles, The Huguenots, Ch. xvii, p. 432:

     The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.

5. (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
   • 1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, p. 27:

     These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.

6. (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
   • 1927, L. Bloomfield & al., Language, No. 3, p. 129:

     Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.

派生語

• distinctive feature

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