distinct
Usage
What are other ways to say distinct?
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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Bollinger bands, a technical analysis tool named after its creator, John Bollinger, creates three distinct lines over a standard market chart set over a 20-day period.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The study also revealed that aging may occur in distinct stages rather than as one continuous process.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
In his telling, two distinct social archetypes rooted in the era of England’s 17th-century civil war—the Cavalier and the Puritan—were symbolized by the ships of his title, the White Lion and the Mayflower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
His directives to writers pitching future “Boys” spinoffs are clear: The offshoot would have to be that scribe’s “passion project” and “totally distinct and unique from the others” in that franchise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
But then her legs pressed in harder, and in her stomach she felt the distinct sickness of rising rapidly.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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