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adjective
- 1. (of a person) able to recognize or make distinctions with accuracy: "she needs to be discriminative when it comes to investment of valuable resources"
- 2. making or showing an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability: "her statements were discriminative against minority groups"
Discriminative is an adjective that means making distinctions or discriminatory. See synonyms, examples, word history and related entries for discriminative.
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Discriminative definition: constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.. See examples of DISCRIMINATIVE used in a sentence.
DISCRIMINATIVE definition: 1. able to see, hear, or recognize small differences between things : 2. treating a person or…. Learn more.
showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste. adjective. expressing careful judgment. “ discriminative censure”. synonyms: judicial. critical. characterized by careful evaluation and judgment.
DISCRIMINATIVE definition: making fine distinctions ; discerning | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
Discriminative means having the ability to distinguish or make a choice based on differences. It is derived from Latin discrīmināt-, discrīmināre, and has five meanings in OED.
: to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences : to recognize or identify as separate and distinct. discriminate right from wrong. especially : to distinguish from another like object. discriminate the individual voices in the choir. intransitive verb. 1. a. : to make a distinction. discriminate among historical sources.