Distinctive vs Unmistakable - What's the difference?
distinctive | unmistakable |
that serves to distinguish between things
that is characteristic or typical of something
unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
As adjectives the difference between distinctive and unmistakable
is that distinctive is that serves to distinguish between things while unmistakable is unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.distinctive
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* * ----unmistakable
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(en adjective)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable .
