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Defenition of the word distinguish

    • Defenition of the word distinguish

      • To see someone or something as different from others; to discern or comprehend.
      • To detect with the senses.
      • To identify as in botany or biology, for example.
      • be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
      • mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
      • as in in botany or biology, for example
      • detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
      • make conspicuous
      • be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
      • identify as in botany or biology, for example
      • make conspicuous or noteworthy
      • detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can''t make out the faces in this photograph"
      • mark as different
      • detect with the senses

    Synonyms for the word distinguish

      • characterize
      • classify
      • decide
      • describe
      • differentiate
      • discern
      • discover
      • discriminate
      • identify
      • key
      • key out
      • make a distinction
      • make out
      • mark
      • mark out
      • name
      • perceive
      • pick out
      • recognize
      • secern
      • secernate
      • see
      • separate
      • set apart
      • severalize
      • signalize
      • single out
      • tell
      • tell apart
      • tell between

    Similar words in the distinguish

      • distinguish
      • distinguishable

    Hyponyms for the word distinguish

      • characterise
      • characterize
      • contradistinguish
      • contrast
      • decouple
      • demarcate
      • discriminate
      • dissociate
      • individualise
      • individualize
      • know
      • know apart
      • label
      • resolve
      • separate
      • severalise
      • severalize
      • sex
      • single out
      • singularise
      • singularize
      • stratify

    Hypernyms for the word distinguish

      • characterise
      • characterize
      • identify
      • mark
      • place
      • qualify

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