Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Drawing distinctions.
- adjective Marked by or showing prejudice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That marks distinction; constituting a difference; characteristic: as, the discriminative features of men.
- Making distinctions; discriminating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.
- adjective Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective which has the ability to
discriminate between things; or which imparts such ability - adjective of an element, etc. which serves to
distinguish its bearer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of making fine distinctions
- adjective expressing careful judgment
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Examples
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Such kind of discriminative advertisement would still appear as the media lack self-regulating practice and regulative law isn't ready yet.
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Gately's Husband Files Complaint Over 'discriminative' Article
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Gately's Husband Files Complaint Over 'discriminative' Article
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"discriminative" levy would push some lenders into the red and hamper economic growth.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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As prejudice and discriminative as the republicans are, do you think they enjoy having you at the head of their party?
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Also some towns are much harder and more discriminative in terms of who they will give a license to.
I may be moving to Massachusetts for my job. I am wondering what the gun laws are like there. 2009
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Also some towns are much harder and more discriminative in terms of who they will give a license to.
I may be moving to Massachusetts for my job. I am wondering what the gun laws are like there. 2009
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Whereas the nasty ones are really discriminative people.
Australia Sucks Pt.3 Jerine 2009
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Building upon 2009's Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the new initiative would make it easier for women to file class-action lawsuits against employers with discriminative pay practices, prohibiting businesses from retaliating against those who do so and exposing them to hefty lawsuits if they fail to comply.
Hilary A. Doe: Women's Rights Worth the Work Hilary A. Doe 2010
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The benefits of volunteering obviously are not age-discriminative.
Margot Pritzker: "Y" Volunteer? The Benefits of Volunteering for Young Professionals 2010
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