Selective

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Selective \Se*lect"ive\, a.
     Selecting; tending to select.
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           This selective providence of the Almighty. --Bp. Hall.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  selective
       adj 1: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an
              exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason
              Brown
       2: characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the
          school was very selective in its admissions"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "selective":
     accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, censorious, choicy,
     choosing, choosy, clannish, cliquish, conscientious, constituent,
     critical, delicate, demanding, differential, discerning,
     discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory,
     distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elect, elective, electoral,
     ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive,
     exclusory, fastidious, fine, inadmissible, insular, meticulous,
     narrow, nice, parochial, particular, perfectionistic, picky,
     precise, precisianistic, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive,
     priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic,
     refined, restrictive, scrupulous, seclusive, segregative, select,
     selecting, sensitive, separative, snobbish, snobby, strict, subtle,
     tactful, xenophobic