selective
Meaning of selective
adjective
- Of or relating to the process of selection.
- Of or relating to natural selection.
selective pressure
- (of a person) choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
He's very selective and spent hours in the store choosing a new shirt.
- Having the authority or capability to make a selection.
In the USA, military conscription is controlled by the Selective Service.
Information about selective
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of selective
se-lec-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- selective is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of selective
- Spanish: selectivo, selectiva
- Portuguese: seletivo
- Italian: selettivo
- French: sélectif
- German: auswählend, selektiv
Anagrams of selective
Words that rhyme with selective
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative
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