Characteristic
Common misspellings for characteristic:
charactestics, charasteristic, charactistic, caracteristic, charachteristic, charictaristic, characteritic, characterisitc, charactersitic, characteristice, charactristic, charactistics, charactericstic, characterstic, chracteristic, characterisic, charactoristic, charectoristic, characteristich, characteristc, characteritsic, characteriestic, charactheristic, charatristic, charateristic, charicteristic, charecteristic, characterist, charcteristic, characterisitic, characterists, characteristiscs, caracteristique, charachteritic, characteriscts, characterisit, characteristik, charactiristic, charactreristic, characturistic, charictristics.
Definition of characteristic:
- That which constitutes the character; that which distinguishes one person or thing from another. The characteristic of a logarithm. Its index or exponent.
- That which distinguishes a person or thing from another.
- Constituting or exhibiting peculiar qualities.
- Applied to the principal letter of a word, retained in all its derivatives and compounds, or nearly all.
Usage examples for characteristic
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The minuteness of this bookkeeping is characteristic. An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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We may note Joseph's immediate entrance upon office and his characteristic energy in it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren
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His way in this matter, as in everything else, was characteristic. A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller Harriet Mann Miller
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Unchangedly he looked up and observed the young girl, each characteristic movement, the incessantly changing expression of her face, on which light and shade seemed to chase each other. Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin