discriminative
adjective
discriminative is an adjective meaning “Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-V-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does discriminative mean?
adjective
- 1
Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
- 2
Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce discriminative?
Discriminative has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of discriminative
- more discriminative comparative
- most discriminative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is discriminative?
Discriminative appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).