Word of the day: manticore. a monster with a lion's body, a scorpion's tail, and a man's head with three rows of teeth. It roamed the jungles of India and, like the Sphinx , would ask travellers a riddle and kill them when they failed to answer it. See full definition.
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tending to select carefully we were highly selective about the music we listened to while trying out loudspeakers Synonyms choosy (or choosey), particular, picky Related Words nice; fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy; discerning, discriminating, judicious Near Antonyms indiscriminate, indiscriminating Antonyms nonselective, unselective.
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Definition of selective. 1  1 : of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select. 2  2 : highly specific in activity or effect selective pesticides selective absorption.
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having the function or power of selecting; making a selection. 2. characterized by selection, especially fastidious selection. 3. of or relating to selection. 4. Electricity, Radio. having good selectivity.
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Definition of selective for Students. : careful to choose or include only the best or most suitable individuals a selective college.
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Selective Service System. The Selective Service System is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription.
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Example Sentences for selective. This was intensified throughout the land by the operation of the Selective Service Act. The selective effect of them is in the resistance to the fashions or subjection to them. But, whatever be the underlying educational philosophy, the selective value of the curriculum is an inescapable fact. His mind was a selective soil, in which only good seed could germinate.
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The Selective Service System provides the names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies (JAMRS) program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database. The names are distributed to the Services for recruiting purposes on a quarterly basis.
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Medical Definition of selective. 1  1: of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select. 2  2: highly specific in activity or effect selective pesticides selective permeability of a plasma membrane.
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Selective means relating to, or characterized by selection. A selective means of, relating to, or characterized by selection.