Exact Match:
- selective
- 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"
Synonyms:
- 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