selective
[adjective]
Synonyms: particular, careful, discerning, discriminating

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Related Words: particular, scrupulous

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

se‧lec‧tive AC /səˈlektɪv, sɪˈlektɪv/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: selection, selector, selectivity; verb: select; adverb: selectively; adjective: selective]

1. careful about what you choose to do, buy, allow etc ⇒ non-selective
selective about/in
We’re very selective about what we let the children watch.
selective schools (=that choose which students to accept)
He has a very selective memory (=he chooses what he wants to remember and what to forget).

2. affecting or relating to the best or most suitable people or things from a larger group:
selective breeding
—selectively adverb
—selectivity /səˌlekˈtɪvəti, sɪˌlekˈtɪvəti/ noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

selective
adj.
VERBS be
ADV. extremely, highly, very | increasingly | fairly, quite, rather | necessarily The list provided here is necessarily selective.
notoriously The human memory is notoriously selective.
socially the socially selective nature of population changes
PREP. about He is quite selective about what he studies.
in Most of the girls are extremely selective in their choice of boyfriends.

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