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Adjective distinguished has 3 senses
- distinguished, eminent, great - (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"; "an eminent scholar"; "a great statesman"
Antonym: unimportant (indirect, via important)
- distinguished, imposing, magisterial - used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
Antonym: undignified (indirect, via dignified)
- distinguished - set apart from other such things
Antonyms: undifferentiated, uniform (indirect, via differentiated)
Verb distinguish has 5 senses
- distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
--1 is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart - detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- distinguish, mark, differentiate - be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
--3 is one way to qualify, characterize, characterise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- signalize, signalise, distinguish - make conspicuous or noteworthy
--4 is one way to mark
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name - identify as in botany or biology, for example
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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