English-Portuguese translations for distinctive

• característico
  Cumpre dizer que a União Europeia constitui um modelo extremamente característico e único, construído, em primeiro lugar, sobre a democracia e a coexistência de nações na União Europeia. It has to be said that the European Union constitutes a very distinctive and unique model, built primarily on democracy and the coexistence of nations in the European Union.
• peculiar
  Penso que o desafio que temos de enfrentar neste momento é procurar fazer emergir os traços distintivos e peculiares do capitalismo europeu na era da globalização.I believe that the challenge that we must meet today is to aim to bring out the distinctive, characteristic features of European capitalism in the age of globalisation.
  Não serão «as catedrais no deserto» que trarão o desenvolvimento, mas sim a organização de uma rede de pequenas empresas vocacionadas para uma produção de qualidade de produtos típicos e peculiares. It is not 'cathedrals in the desert' that will generate growth, but the organisation of a network of small businesses geared to making high-quality, typical and distinctive products.
  O meu colega Jarzembowski, traçou as linhas gerais do nosso grupo da maneira clara e brilhante que lhe é peculiar, e por isso abordarei apenas alguns pormenores. My colleague, Mr Jarzembowski, laid down our group's major policies in his own distinctive way, one which is both lucid and brilliant, and I will therefore only consider a few details.

Definition of distinctive

• Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing
• Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things
• Characteristic, typical
• Distinguished, being distinct in character or position
• Used to separate clauses in place of stops
• Distinguishing a particular sense of word
• A #Adjective|distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic
• A #Adjective|distinctive accent
• A #Adjective|distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect

Examples

• a product in distinctive packaging
• his distinctive bass voice

Related words

• distinctiveness
• indistinctive
• distinctive feature