Sample Sentences for
distinct
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    In the early days, Facebook recognized two distinct genders. Now it has over 50.
    distinct = clear and easily identified
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    She says it is a distinct possibility.
    distinct = clear or identifiable
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    The differences in capabilities of a phone, tablet, and personal computer continue to grow less distinct.
    distinct = clear or easily noticed
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    Which choice best summarizes the first paragraph of the passage:
    1. Population in the central city tends to grow and shrink at the same pace as population in the suburbs.
    2. Population growth in the central city and suburbs are two distinct phenomena.
    distinct = different or separate
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    As they turned the corner, they distinctly heard Professor McGonagall blow her nose.  (source)
    distinctly = clearly
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    Another scream follows and then indistinct yelling and a loud slam.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinct means not and reverses the meaning of distinct. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Your friend Fiona has red hair — quite distinctive, actually; I've noticed it before.  (source)
    distinctive = easily identified
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    She apparently felt that her status as Richard's agent created a bond of intimacy between herself and Cass; who, helplessly and miserably mesmerized, and handicapped by the volume of Miss Wales' voice and the razorlike distinctness of her syllables, trotted obediently behind her into the bedroom where coats and hats were to be deposited and where the women could repair their makeup.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Why not wait for your just desserts?" mumbled the earl indistinctly, his mouth full of food.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinctly means not and reverses the meaning of distinctly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was distinctively lit by what looked like candle-filled paper lanterns, but were in fact plastic, illuminated by flame-shaped, electronically flickering bulbs.†  (source)
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    Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinctness means not and reverses the meaning of distinctness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Co-operation does not mean losing distinctiveness.†  (source)
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    The vague dread that had been in my mind since I had seen the inhuman face of the man at the stream grew distincter as I stood there.†  (source)
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