distinct – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of distinct

Adjective: distinct

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativedistincter
Superlativedistinctest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore distinct
Superlativemost distinct

Sample Sentences

  • Her voice was distinct despite the heavy traffic.
  • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. [2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:]
  • Horses are distinct from zebras.
  • “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant. [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:]
  • Olga's voice is quite distinct because of her accent.
  • The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name. [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The which [place] was dight / With divers flowres distinct with rare delight. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:]

Adjectives inflected like distinct

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English distincte, past participle of distincten (“to distinguish, discern”), from Old French destincter, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish. See: Latin Adjectives 'distinctus'.