Exact Match:
- appointive
- subject to appointment
- relating to the act of appointing; "appointive powers"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- choosy
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- adoptive,
- appointive,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosing,
- conscientious,
- constituent,
- critical,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- discerning,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- eclectic,
- elective,
- electoral,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- hard to please,
- meticulous,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- scrupulous,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- strict
- selective
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- tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown
- characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions" related words >
- 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
- elective
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- subject to popular election; "elective official"
- not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study" related words >
- academic specialty,
- adoptive,
- alternative,
- appointive,
- arbitrary,
- area,
- autonomous,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- classical education,
- constituent,
- core curriculum,
- course,
- course of study,
- curriculum,
- discipline,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- discriminating,
- disjunctive,
- eclectic,
- electoral,
- field,
- free,
- free will,
- general education,
- general studies,
- gratuitous,
- humanities,
- independent,
- liberal arts,
- major,
- minor,
- nonmandatory,
- offered,
- optional,
- particular,
- proffered,
- proseminar,
- quadrivium,
- refresher course,
- scientific education,
- selecting,
- selective,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- seminar,
- specialty,
- spontaneous,
- study,
- subdiscipline,
- subject,
- technical education,
- trivium,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unforced,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- volitional,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- willful
- discriminating
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- showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" related words >
- accurate,
- adoptive,
- appointive,
- appreciative,
- careful,
- censorious,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- choicy,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- circumspect,
- civilized,
- conscientious,
- considerate,
- constituent,
- contrastive,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminate,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- eclectic,
- elective,
- electoral,
- elegant,
- enlightened,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- idiosyncratic,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- keen,
- meticulous,
- nice,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- perceptive,
- perfectionistic,
- personalizing,
- picky,
- polished,
- politic,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- scrupulous,
- select,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- separative,
- sophisticated,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wise
- constituent
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- (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
- a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected" related words >
- ab ovo,
- adjunct,
- adoptive,
- air,
- appointive,
- appurtenance,
- aspect,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- basal,
- basic,
- brute matter,
- building block,
- census,
- chemical element,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- circumstance,
- component,
- composition,
- constituents,
- constitutive,
- content,
- contents,
- detail,
- discriminating,
- division,
- divisions,
- earth,
- eclectic,
- elective,
- electoral,
- element,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- elements,
- essential,
- factor,
- feature,
- fire,
- fixings,
- formative,
- fraction,
- fundamental,
- fundamental particle,
- gut,
- guts,
- hyle,
- hypostasis,
- index,
- ingredient,
- ingredients,
- innards,
- insides,
- integral,
- integrant,
- inventory,
- item,
- items,
- list,
- makings,
- material,
- material world,
- materiality,
- matter,
- molecule,
- monad,
- natural world,
- nature,
- of the essence,
- original,
- part,
- part and parcel,
- particular,
- parts,
- physical world,
- plenum,
- portion,
- primal,
- primary,
- primitive,
- radical,
- selecting,
- selective,
- specialty,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- substratum,
- the four elements,
- underlying,
- unit of being,
- water,
- whole
- eclectic
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- someone who selects according to the eclectic method
- selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- adoptive,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- animist,
- animistic,
- appointive,
- assimilated,
- assorted,
- atomistic,
- blended,
- broad,
- catholic,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- combinative,
- combinatory,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- comprehensive,
- conglomerate,
- conjoint,
- conjugate,
- conjunctive,
- connective,
- consolidated,
- constituent,
- cosmotheistic,
- dappled,
- derived,
- discerning,
- discriminating,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- elective,
- electoral,
- empirical,
- equivocal,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- fastidious,
- fifty-fifty,
- finicky,
- fused,
- fussy,
- half-and-half,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- heterogeneous,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inclusive,
- incorporated,
- indiscriminate,
- instrumentalist,
- integrated,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- joined,
- joint,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- medley,
- merged,
- metaphysical,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- monistic,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multifarious,
- multiform,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- one,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- particular,
- patchy,
- picky,
- pluralistic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- promiscuous,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- scholastic,
- scrambled,
- select,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensationalistic,
- syncretic,
- syncretistic,
- syncretized,
- synthesized,
- theistic,
- thrown together,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- united,
- unoriginal,
- utilitarian,
- varied,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic
- particular
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- a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general"
- (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
- first and most important; "his special interest is music"; "she gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work" related words >
- absolute,
- accurate,
- adjunct,
- adoptive,
- adventure,
- appointive,
- appropriate,
- article,
- aspect,
- attentive,
- blow-by-blow,
- brass tacks,
- careful,
- case,
- categorical,
- censorious,
- certain,
- characteristic,
- choicy,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- circumstance,
- citation,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- close,
- component,
- concrete,
- conscientious,
- constituent,
- contingent,
- correct,
- count,
- critical,
- cross reference,
- cross section,
- dainty,
- datum,
- defined,
- defining,
- definite,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demonstration,
- denominative,
- detachment,
- detail,
- detailed,
- determinate,
- different,
- differential,
- discrete,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- distinguished,
- distributional,
- distributive,
- division,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- dole,
- eclectic,
- elective,
- electoral,
- element,
- episode,
- equal,
- esoteric,
- especial,
- especially,
- essential facts,
- essentials,
- even stephen,
- event,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exactly,
- example,
- exceptional,
- exemplification,
- exigent,
- experience,
- express,
- exquisite,
- extraordinary,
- facet,
- fact,
- factor,
- fastidious,
- fifty-fifty,
- fine,
- fine point,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fixed,
- fraction,
- full,
- fussy,
- half,
- half-and-half,
- halvers,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hypercritical,
- illustration,
- in particular,
- incident,
- incidental,
- individual,
- information,
- inner,
- installment,
- instance,
- intimate,
- isolated,
- item,
- itemized,
- lone,
- marked,
- matter,
- matter of fact,
- meticulous,
- minor detail,
- minute,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- narrow,
- nice,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- occasion,
- occurrence,
- one,
- only,
- ordinal,
- outstanding,
- painstaking,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- particularized,
- particularly,
- particulars,
- peculiar,
- per capita,
- per head,
- percentage,
- perfectionistic,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- personal,
- phenomenon,
- picayune,
- picky,
- point,
- portion,
- precise,
- precisely,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- private,
- pro rata,
- proportional,
- proportionate,
- prorated,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- quotation,
- random sample,
- reality,
- reference,
- refined,
- regard,
- religious,
- remainder,
- remarkable,
- respect,
- respective,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- sample,
- sampling,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- separate,
- several,
- share,
- single,
- singular,
- sole,
- solipsistic,
- solitary,
- special,
- speciality,
- specially,
- specific,
- specifically,
- strict,
- subdivision,
- subdivisional,
- subgroup,
- subspecies,
- subtle,
- taxonomic,
- the concrete,
- the data,
- the details,
- the dope,
- the facts,
- the individual,
- the information,
- the particular,
- the particulars,
- the picture,
- the scoop,
- the score,
- the special,
- the specific,
- the specifics,
- the unique,
- the whole story,
- thing,
- thorough,
- turn of events,
- typal,
- typical,
- unique,
- unusual
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