Definitions for selective

selective se·lec·tive

Spelling: [si-lek-tiv]
IPA: /sɪˈlɛk tɪv/

Selective is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in selective (ceeeilstv).

Definitions for selective

adjective

  1. having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
  2. characterized by selection, especially fastidious selection.
  3. of or relating to selection.
  4. Electricity, Radio. having good selectivity.

Origin of selective

First recorded in 1615-25; select + -ive

Examples for selective

Whether or not guayusa is a product of selective breeding, the Kichwa have learned to harness its power.

His mind was a selective soil, in which only good seed could germinate.

Liberals are outraged over the Steven Scalise scandal—but the left has selective amnesia.

The selective effect of them is in the resistance to the fashions or subjection to them.

The machinery for the selective draft had merely been started.

But a drug like lamotrigine is not selective, and so it also affects the behavior of the rest of the temporal lobe.

The weakness of any case becomes clear when the logic used to make the arguments is strained, selective and irrelevant.

It has its proof in the past history of the selective power of love.

The material as well as the workers needed this selective power.

Justice should not be selective to fit a political narrative when the facts and evidence prove otherwise.

Word Value for selective
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14

Words with friends

17

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