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| selective amnesia
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective selective has 2 senses
- selective(s = adj.all) Array - tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader" Derived forms verb select1, noun selectivity1
- selective(s = adj.all) Array - characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions" Derived forms verb select1, noun selectivity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
selective, a.
Selecting; tending to select. [1913 Webster]
"This selective providence of the Almighty."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
selective, adj.
1 using or characterized by selection.
2 able to select, esp. (of a radio receiver) able to respond to a chosen frequency without interference from others.
1 using or characterized by selection.
2 able to select, esp. (of a radio receiver) able to respond to a chosen frequency without interference from others.
Idiom
selective service US hist. service in the armed forces under conscription.
Derivative
selectively adv. selectiveness n. selectivity n.
THESAURUS
selective
accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, censorious, choicy, choosing, choosy, clannish, cliquish, conscientious, constituent, critical, delicate, demanding, differential, discerning, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elect, elective, electoral, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, fastidious, fine, inadmissible, insular, meticulous, narrow, nice, parochial, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, restrictive, scrupulous, seclusive, segregative, select, selecting, sensitive, separative, snobbish, snobby, strict, subtle, tactful, xenophobic
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