distinct
Usage
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The adjective distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties. Different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story.
Example Sentences
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Five acts — Nezza, Eddy, Tropa Magica, Vanita Leo and Hermanos Espinoza — take over the De Los showcase at South by Southwest with their own distinct essence.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
There remains, though, a distinct line of regional cowboy music and spoken-word poetry that has proved sturdy and continuingly meaningful to people out West, in particular.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Folks were more comfortable banning those because it was clear-cut and each image had a distinct file.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
President Ferdinand Marcos also said that grounding planes due to a shortage of fuel is a "distinct possibility" after some of the country's airlines were told that they cannot refuel their jets abroad.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
