discriminative

1. 1.

   capable of making fine distinctions

   Synonymsdiscriminatory

   Similardiscriminating
2. 2.

   expressing careful judgment

   “discriminative censure”

   “a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose”

   Synonymsjudicial

   Similarcritical

Questions about discriminative

What does discriminative mean?

discriminative means "capable of making fine distinctions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discriminative?

discriminative has 5 syllables: di-scrim-i-na-tive. The stress falls on "scrim". In IPA it is /dɪˈskɹɪmənətɪv/.

What is another word for discriminative?

Close synonyms include discriminatory, judicial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is discriminative a common word?

discriminative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.