Distinctive and Selfsame

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Distinctive adjective - Being not of the same kind.

Usage example: she seems to alternate between two distinctive hairstyles

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Selfsame is an antonym for distinctive.

Selfsame adjective - Being one and not another.

Usage example: that's the selfsame man who once helped me

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Distinctive is an antonym for selfsame.

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Selfsame and Distinctive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/distinctive/selfsame

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