Distinguishing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTINGUISHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DISTINGUISH, to perceive a difference in
• recognize or point out a difference
• be an identifying characteristic or mark of
• recognize or treat (someone or something) as different
• manage to discern (something barely perceptible)
• make oneself worthy of respect by one's behaviour or achievements
ADJECTIVE:
• Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to perceive a difference in; mentally separate

Words related to DISTINGUISHING

distinguish16

Words that contain DISTINGUISHING

contradistinguishing28

How to use DISTINGUISHING in a sentence

• The absence of envy was one of the distinguishing features in the character of Caesar, as it was in that of Cicero.
• But the distinguishing glory of chivalry was devotion to the female sex.
• She must plainly tell me, that I appeared to her incapable of distinguishing what were the requisites of a pure mind.
• Nor can it understand, either the existence of error or the meaning of truth, or the means of distinguishing between them.
• One scarcely sees the philosophy of distinguishing between a civil and a political right.
• I afterwards had frequent opportunities of remarking that the natives of these islands have the power of distinguishing between pure and counterfeit gold by the smell.
• This fact gives the most distinguishing characteristic to her literary methods.
• It was part and parcel of herself, the distinguishing trait in a rare combination of qualities.
• Delayed marriage still has its influence on the birth-rate, but with the spread of the same knowledge, that influence is a distinguishing quantity.
• There is an objective order, and we are all capable of distinguishing between it and the subjective.
• Her radiant spirit, staunch loyalty, noble character, effective teaching method were distinguishing features of her consecrated life.
• And this is the distinguishing characteristic of English farming generally.
• Therefore here we hold not that laughing, but that drinking is the distinguishing character of man.
• But we must first begin by distinguishing the two questions.
• And his dress, its colors distinguishing him from the mass of his followers, still further proclaimed the rank he occupied.
• Nor has she that sense of reticence which is said to have been the distinguishing mark of unmarried girlhood at some former period.
• It was most fortunate for the Union at this juncture that caution and method were his distinguishing characteristics.
• But we afterwards found that this term was only the distinguishing title of the tribe which performed the ceremonies incident to the operation.
• I know of no distinguishing feature presented by the coral reefs of the Louisiade compared with those which I have seen elsewhere.
• The savage will think that this is what remains alive after death, for he is incapable of distinguishing between a swoon and death.
• Variety may be considered as a distinguishing trait in the works, and ways of God.
• We passed Pink Farm Cemetery, barely distinguishing the outline of its solitary tree.
• One may defy critics to name a great English author in fiction whose chief and distinguishing merit is in his pictures of the passion of Love.
• Next to the color, the hair is the most distinguishing characteristic of the Negro, but the two characteristics do not vary with each other.

Similar words containing TINGUISH without suffix ing and without prefix dis

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