Selective

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the process of selection.
 * 2)  Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
 * He's very selective and spent hours in the store choosing a new shirt.
 * 1)  Having the authority or capability to make a selection.
 * In the USA, military conscription is controlled by the Selective Service.

Derived terms

 * selectiveness

Related terms

 * select
 * selectivity

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Finnish: valikoiva, selektiivinen
 * French:


 * Russian: выборный, селективный


 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: valikoiva, selektiivinen


 * French:
 * Russian: разборчивый

Anagrams

 * electives