selective

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: se=lec=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

selective, a. 

 Selecting; tending to select.  [1913 Webster]
"This selective providence of the Almighty."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

selective, adj.
1 using or characterized by selection.
2 able to select, esp. (of a radio receiver) able to respond to a chosen frequency without interference from others.

Idiom

selective service US hist. service in the armed forces under conscription.

Derivative

selectively adv. selectiveness n. selectivity n.

THESAURUS

selective

accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, censorious, choicy, choosing, choosy, clannish, cliquish, conscientious, constituent, critical, delicate, demanding, differential, discerning, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elect, elective, electoral, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, fastidious, fine, inadmissible, insular, meticulous, narrow, nice, parochial, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, restrictive, scrupulous, seclusive, segregative, select, selecting, sensitive, separative, snobbish, snobby, strict, subtle, tactful, xenophobic