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Characteristic vs Husbandly - What's the difference?

characteristic | husbandly |

As adjectives the difference between characteristic and husbandly

is that characteristic is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing while husbandly is having the characteristics of a husband; marital.

As a noun characteristic

is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.

characteristic

English

(wikipedia characteristic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

    Synonyms

    * distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typical

    Antonyms

    * uncharacteristic * untypical

    Derived terms

    * characteristic function * characteristicness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
  • (mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
  • (nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
  • (algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
    • A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.

    Synonyms

    * attribute * idiosyncrasy * mannerism * quality * tendency * trademark * trait * See also

    Derived terms

    * defining characteristic

    Related terms

    * characteristically

    See also

    * mantissa

    External links

    * *

    husbandly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 26, author=Jon Pareles, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He strives for husbandly allure in slow-motion ballads: “Love You Gently” and the role-reversing “Trading Places,” in which he calls for her to be the aggressive one and offers to make breakfast the next morning. }}
  • *2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 211:
  • *:As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
  • (obsolete) Frugal; economical.
  • *1707 , (Ofspring Blackall), The blessedness of the poor in spirit :
  • *:Even he that has the most of all is nevertheless oblig'd to be Frugal and Husbandly, and not to lavish or squander away what he has [...].