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distinguée

distinguée is the alternative spelling of distingue.

Meaning of distingue

Adjective

distingue (comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)

  1. Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
    • By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch...1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57

Forms of distinguée

comparativemore distinguée
superlativemost distinguée

Questions about distinguée

What is distinguée the alternative spelling of?
Distinguée is the alternative spelling of distingue.

Words near distinguée in the dictionary

  1. distinguition
  2. distinguitions
  3. distinguo
  4. distinguos
  5. distingué
  6. distinguée
  7. distintegrin
  8. distiphalli
  9. distiphallus
  10. dististele
  11. dististeles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distinguée (page history and authors); distingue (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.

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