Overview of verb distinguish

The verb distinguish has 5 senses

• distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart -- (mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple")


• spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart -- (detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph")


• distinguish, mark, differentiate -- (be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers")


• signalize, signalise, distinguish -- (make conspicuous or noteworthy)


• identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name -- (identify as in botany or biology, for example)

Overview of adj distinguished

The adj distinguished has 2 senses

• distinguished -- ((used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor")


• distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial -- (used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty")