how to pronounce distinctive

/dɪsˈtɪŋktɪv/

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distinctive is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of distinctive in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… that is a distinctive american belief …”

meaning of distinctive

Distinctive means different from the rest.

distinctive frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word distinctive occurs in english on average 9.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics distinctive can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that distinctive can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;