selective
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4.3
- adjective
- /sɪˈlɛktɪv/
:
selectivo
- She is very selective about the friends she allows into her life.
- a selective college
- a selective university
- highly selective
So being intentional and selective about what you're letting in.
- So being intentional and selective about what you're letting in.
- I I choose to be selective in things I do.
- So you got to be pretty selective in in your searching.
- Don't waste your time watching the news become become selective on what you let into your mind.
- It's called entertainment and it's called being selective with what you like and don't like.
- But I'm very selective, put it that way.
- When we see what's happening in DC, selective leaks and a clearly double standard.
- I am so selective with who we allow in.
- It's not pure over there, but you read from from some selective sources.
- You were promised lower controlled, high skill, high wage, highly selective migration.
- So I think, you know, you could say that she's she's, she's selective in her endorsement of that.
- I do believe that being selective speaks more to femininity.
Examples
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I'm required by law to be a little more selective than I used to be.
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She is very selective and he is definitely her type.
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I I choose to be selective in things I do.
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Alright, I am very selective on who I close my store down early for.
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I think you can be more selective.
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How much more selective do they want to be in choosing jobs?
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We wanna be selective and rebuild this from the ground up.
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Claude saw what he saw with the selective vision that children and artists often share.
Fiction book (1992) -
The other response to information overload is selective exposure.
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Beijing found it difficult to be selective in the kinds of foreign contacts it wished to maintain.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
67
4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
15
3.9
Hard to please when choosing things like clothes or food
A person who is very picky about what they accept
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
3
5.8
A United States system that registers men and can require them to join the military
- Formal
1
5.4
A US government agency that registers men for possible military service
- Specialized
1
8.2
Forgetting certain events or facts, often when it helps avoid blame
- Specialized
1
6.5
A medicine that treats depression by raising a brain chemical called serotonin
- Specialized
An action done on purpose that blocks signals on one radio frequency
- Formal
A system that by law makes people join the military when chosen by the government
How Selective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word selective comes from select, which comes from an old Latin word meaning 'to choose'. So to be selective is to 'choose carefully' and accept only certain people or things.