Word.ws English Dictionary

discriminative

discriminative adjective: having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.

Adjective

discriminative (comparative more discriminative, superlative most discriminative)

  1. Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
  2. (attributive, usually, feature) Which serves to distinguish its bearer.

Synonyms of discriminative

  • excludent

Forms of discriminative

comparativemore discriminative
superlativemost discriminative

Words formed from discriminative

Phrases with discriminative

Questions about discriminative

What does discriminative mean?
Discriminative means having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
What part of speech is discriminative?
Discriminative is an adjective.

Words near discriminative in the dictionary

  1. discriminating
  2. discriminatingly
  3. discrimination
  4. discriminational
  5. discriminations
  6. discriminative
  7. discriminative stimuli
  8. discriminative stimulus
  9. discriminatively
  10. discriminativeness
  11. discriminator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: discriminative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “discriminative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/discriminative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.