Selective is valid Scrabble Word

Is selective a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for SELECTIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

liking to choose
relating to or involving the selection of the most suitable or best qualified
(of a person) tending to choose carefully
(of a process or agent) affecting some things and not others
operating at or responding to a particular frequency
chosen or choosing carefully
Selecting; tending to select.
tending to select; characterized by careful choice
characterized by very careful or fastidious selection

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or characterized by selection; selecting or tending to select

Words related to SELECTIVE

selectively19 selectiveness18

Words that contain SELECTIVE

selectively19 unselective16 nonselective17 selectiveness18 unselectively21 selectivenesses20

How to use SELECTIVE in a sentence

The additional forces, however, are to be raised by selective draft from men ranging in age from 19 to 25 years.
On June of this year 744,865 men reaching the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, were registered for selective draft purposes.
Ideally beautiful, admittedly, was the plan and scheme of the little state, with its disciplinings, exactions, and devout selective creed.
And it is here that the fine selective instinct of the true artist shows itself, in knowing what details to present and what to omit.
Chemistry of specific, selective and sensitive reactions.
Selective Service in North Carolina in World War 2.
All the social forces are driving man on to a time when the old selective law will be annulled.
First, they have a strongly testing and selective influence.
It would have been a bad thing for the country and would have prolonged the war, and possibly might have lost it, if the selective draft had been delayed.
The selective draft assembled the most remarkable army the world has ever seen.

This elemental attraction, this admixture and selective affinity is love manifest in the degree of the animal kingdom.
Then we speak of a selective process, of the elimination of the weaker and the survival of the stronger.
Natural selection, in the form of a selective death-rate, is strongly operative in man in the early years of life.
There can now be scarcely a doubt that even in highly organized human communities the death-rate is selective, and physical fitness is the criterion for survival.
A selective diminution of the volume of immigration would tend to have that result, because it would necessarily shut out more of the unskilled than the skilled.
Universal conscription is much better than voluntary service, since the latter is highly selective, the former much less so.
But here, too, in modern warfare, this item is becoming less selective, with the advance in discipline and in organized sanitation.
It must be recognized that the death-rate in childhood is largely selective, and that the most effective way to cut it down is to endow the children with better constitutions.
Some of those who are doomed by heredity to a selective death, but are kept alive through the first year, die in the second or third or fourth year.
Of course there are in addition infant deaths which are not selective and which if prevented would leave the infant with as good a chance as any to live.
That little butterfly owes its own rich and delicately shaded tints to the long selective action of a million generations among its ancestors.
Darwin sets down to long-exerted selective preferences in the choice of mates, the ornaments are almost always those of form rather than those of color.
We may think and experiment with this selective process as though it was easy and probably final.
The tone and performance level of each group is determined by the effectiveness of this selective process.
According to most psychologists, the term attention is used to describe the form consciousness takes, to refer to the fact that consciousness is selective.
This selective action of consciousness is mechanical, due to the inborn tendencies toward attention possessed by human beings.
It is so spacious to have a table widen, so spacious and so absorbing and so selective.
A great many ways of accomplishing selective ringing on party lines have been proposed, and a large number of them have been used.
Largest Four-Party Selective Ringing Switchboard in the World.
There are certain indications of the presence of a selective absorbing medium in space.
To this is due the selective action of many poisons.
The selective process thus involved would much improve the quality of the immigrant admitted, and would incidentally render assimilation of the foreigner all the easier.

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