Distinctive and Otherwise

Distinctive

Distinctive adjective - Being not of the same kind.

Otherwise and distinctive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Otherwise" instead an adjective "Distinctive".

Otherwise

Otherwise adjective - Other than as supposed or expected.
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Distinctive and otherwise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distinctive" instead an adjective "Otherwise".

Both words in one sentence

  • Benevolent Architecture You never see any of those (fairly distinctive) architectural features otherwise.
  • Music / Soul Coughing The samples are mostly unrecognizable because they're sped up a lot or otherwise heavily manipulated, but the very end of the song is a couple of seconds of the theme's distinctive whistling.
  • Church of Happyology An episode of Monk featured an otherwise standard cult whose members would disseminate their leader's literature on the street while wearing distinctive uniforms.
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