Word.ws English Dictionary

distinctives

distinctives is the plural of distinctive.

Meaning of distinctive

Noun

distinctive (plural distinctives)

  1. A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
    • ...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...1816, Maurice Keatinge, Travels through France and Spain to Morocco, volume I, page 189
  2. (Hebrew) A distinctive accent.
    • A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, page 27
  3. A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
    • Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.1979, Theron F. Schlabach, “Gospel versus Gospel”, in Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, page 154

See all 9 meanings of distinctive

Questions about distinctives

What is distinctives the plural of?
Distinctives is the plural of distinctive.

Words near distinctives in the dictionary

  1. distinctive paper
  2. distinctive papers
  3. distinctively
  4. distinctiveness
  5. distinctivenesses
  6. distinctives
  7. distinctivity
  8. distinctlier
  9. distinctly
  10. distinctness
  11. distinctnesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: distinctives (page history and authors); distinctive (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: “distinctives.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/distinctives. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.