{
    "term": "distinctive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "having a quality or characteristic that makes something different and easily noticed",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "clothes with a distinctive style"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The male bird has distinctive white markings on its head."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each district of the city has its own distinctive character."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Good diagrams are the book's most distinctive feature."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She heard the distinctive sounds of a Siamese cat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car was silver with distinctive red stripes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The herb has a strong, distinctive, celery-like flavour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The kidnapper had a fairly distinctive voice with a Scottish accent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was nothing distinctive about the envelope in which the letter came."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "characteristic",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/",
                "audio": "di/distinctive/distinctive__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/",
                "audio": "di/distinctive/distinctive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘serving to differentiate’): from late Latin distinctivus, from Latin distinct- ‘distinguished’, from the verb distinguere, from dis- ‘apart’ + stinguere ‘put out’."
}