{"provider_name":"Hatena Blog","version":"1.0","blog_url":"https://early-bird-3.hatenadiary.org/","categories":[],"published":"2011-02-06 17:38:35","width":"100%","author_name":"Early_Bird","title":"distinct, distinctive","url":"https://early-bird-3.hatenadiary.org/entry/20110206/1296981515","image_url":null,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe src=\"https://hatenablog-parts.com/embed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fearly-bird-3.hatenadiary.org%2Fentry%2F20110206%2F1296981515\" title=\"distinct, distinctive - Early_Bird\u306e\u65e5\u8a18\" class=\"embed-card embed-blogcard\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 190px; max-width: 500px; margin: 10px 0px;\"></iframe>","description":"They are both correct words, but with slightly different meanings. Distinct means 'unmistakable, plain, clearly perceptible, definite and individual.' Distinctive means 'charactersistic.'Let me use the following 2 similar phrases to illutrate:The hallway has a distinct smell of soap - it smells like\u2026","blog_title":"Early_Bird\u306e\u65e5\u8a18","author_url":"https://blog.hatena.ne.jp/Early_Bird/","provider_url":"https://hatena.blog","height":"190"}