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selective

se·lec·tive

selective

 
 
pronunciation:
s lek tihv
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: characterized by careful choice; tending to exercise discrimination.
She is selective about what foods she buys.Some colleges are more selective than others.
antonyms:
indiscriminate, promiscuous
similar words:
choosy
definition 2: having the power to select.
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)selective academically, extremely, highly, less, more, somewhat
(adj.)selective + noun abortion, access, adaptation, admission, advantage, amnesia, antidepressant, anxiety, applicant, application, approach, appropriation, assassination, attention, availability, basis, bias, borrowing, breeding, calling, coding, college, combination, comparison, control, criterion, cutting, deficiency, disclosure, dissection, draft, editing, ejector, electrode, emigration, emphasis, encoding, enforcement, engagement, enrollment, estrogen, evolution, focus, gear, harvest, harvesting, herbicide, immigration, incentive, incorporation, institution, interpretation, intervention, investment, laser, leak, leaking, logging, memory, modulator, mutism, neck, objection, omission, outrage, perception, policy, pressure, process, processing, prosecution, reading, receptor, recognition, recruitment, reduction, reporting, repression, reproduction, review, serotonin, service, statistics, targeting, use, waiver  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: selectively (adv.), selectiveness (n.)