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View definitions for discriminative

discriminative

adjective as in discriminating

adjective as in discriminatory

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Example Sentences

The Pekingese are very discriminative and frequently condescendingly refer to all other Chinese as "outside men" or "foreigners."

Compunction at incipient crime, and gratitude to find its punishment so mercifully speedy, so lenient, so discriminative?

The retentive power works up to the height of the discriminative power; it can do no more.

In him the discriminative sensory perceptions kept pace with great intellectual activities—attention and judgment.

Of him his best friend, Sydney Smith, left a short but discriminative character.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discriminative, such as: discerning, discriminate, discriminatory, particular, and selective.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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