Definition for Distinguish:

• dis-ting'gwish, v.t. to mark off, set apart ( often with from): to recognise by characteristic qualities: to discern critically: to separate by a mark of honour: to make eminent or known.-- v.i. to make or show distinctions or differences, to recognise the difference ( with from, between).-- adj. DISTING'UISHABLE, that may be capable of being distinguished.-- adv. DISTING'UISHABLY.-- p.adj. DISTING'UISHED, illustrious.-- n. DISTING'UISHER.-- p.adj. DISTING'UISHING, peculiar.-- n. DISTING'UISHMENT ( Shak.), distinction. [ Through Fr. from L. distingu[) e]re, distinctum-- dis, asunder, stingu[) e]re, to prick, conn. with Gr. stizein, to mark. See STING.]

Synonyms for Distinguish:

• n.

  •
  • demarcate,
  • collate,
  • assault,
  • keen,
  • sensation,
  • characterize,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • sense,
  • acute,
  • sift,
  • assail,
  • perception.
  •
  • comprehend,
  • praise,
  • celebrate,
  • deduce,
  • ennoble,
  • understand,
  • admire.
  •
  • differ,
  • same,
  • contrast,
  • collide,
  • vary,
  • disagree.
  •
  • mind,
  • remark,
  • knowledge.
  •
  • singularize.
  •
  • honor,
  • elevate,
  • respect,
  • exalt.
  •distinguish (noun)
  • name,
  • pick out,
  • discern,
  • discover,
  • differentiate,
  • signalise,
  • key out,
  • make out,
  • recognize,
  • severalize,
  • secern,
  • describe,
  • separate,
  • secernate,
  • signalize,
  • mark,
  • recognise,
  • tell,
  • severalise,
  • key,
  • tell apart.

• v.

  •communication (verb)
  • signalize,
  • signalise.
  •discern, identify (verb)
  • note,
  • tell,
  • beam,
  • get an eyeful,
  • eyeball,
  • detect,
  • see,
  • focus,
  • dig,
  • pick out,
  • observe,
  • pick up on,
  • remark,
  • perceive,
  • view,
  • notice,
  • read,
  • descry,
  • catch,
  • discover,
  • eye,
  • get a load of,
  • spy,
  • flash.
  •discriminate (verb)
  • separate,
  • discern.
  •distinguish (verb)
  • specify.
  •make famous (verb)
  • dignify,
  • praise,
  • honor,
  • celebrate,
  • acknowledge,
  • pay tribute to,
  • admire,
  • immortalize.
  •specialize (verb)
  • discriminate,
  • signify,
  • differentiate,
  • individualize,
  • mark,
  • specialize,
  • define.
  •tell the difference (verb)
  • label,
  • figure out,
  • identify,
  • mark off,
  • separate,
  • sift,
  • demarcate,
  • analyze,
  • single out,
  • name,
  • place,
  • recognize,
  • know,
  • decide,
  • specify,
  • individualize,
  • ascertain,
  • classify,
  • spot,
  • divide,
  • tag,
  • individuate,
  • estimate,
  • extricate,
  • tell from,
  • select,
  • sort out,
  • signalize,
  • pinpoint,
  • Diagnosticate,
  • determine,
  • qualify,
  • categorize,
  • make out,
  • collate,
  • determinate,
  • part,
  • finger,
  • diagnose,
  • characterize,
  • judge,
  • discriminate,
  • singularize,
  • mark,
  • tell between,
  • differentiate,
  • tell apart.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sensory,
  • singularize,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • assail,
  • understand,
  • sentient.
  •
  • disagree,
  • characterize,
  • smell,
  • keen,
  • ennoble,
  • assault,
  • differ,
  • compare,
  • sensation,
  • perception.
  •
  • exalt,
  • vary,
  • collide.
  •
  • sense,
  • contrast.
  •
  • remark,
  • acute.
  •
  • elevate.
  •categorize
  • classify.
  •diagnose
  • Diagnosticate.
  •discover
  • get wind of,
  • detect,
  • pick up on,
  • light upon.
  •look at
  • view.
  •see
  • catch sight of,
  • sight.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fork,
  • cite,
  • get wind,
  • chance on,
  • place against,
  • analyse,
  • catch sight of,
  • notice,
  • learn,
  • sticky,
  • isolate,
  • regard,
  • read,
  • Fame,
  • severalize,
  • enhance,
  • illustrate,
  • make love,
  • stratified,
  • anatomize,
  • get by,
  • grade,
  • look on,
  • twig,
  • shin,
  • contrast,
  • narrate,
  • contradistinguish,
  • nail,
  • identify,
  • glom,
  • jazz,
  • denote,
  • new,
  • disjoin,
  • exalt,
  • identification,
  • call attention to,
  • region,
  • descent,
  • opt for,
  • tell from,
  • beam,
  • tell between,
  • take apart,
  • divide,
  • delineate,
  • sign,
  • bang,
  • indicate,
  • sleep with,
  • differentiation,
  • contend,
  • neck,
  • tick,
  • extra,
  • astute,
  • other,
  • mark off,
  • estimate,
  • do it,
  • oppose,
  • elevate,
  • term,
  • show gratitude,
  • find out,
  • lift,
  • assault,
  • nominate,
  • glorify,
  • district,
  • sequester,
  • label,
  • light upon,
  • interpret,
  • expose,
  • juxtapose,
  • segregate,
  • draw the line,
  • call attention,
  • commemorate,
  • stigmatize,
  • sift,
  • refine a distinction,
  • place,
  • deviation,
  • talent,
  • class,
  • size,
  • discover,
  • appreciation,
  • single out,
  • detect,
  • characterise,
  • descry,
  • single,
  • centimeter,
  • individuate,
  • bring up,
  • atomize,
  • dissociated,
  • hear,
  • stigmatise,
  • detach,
  • renown,
  • have it away,
  • dig,
  • designate,
  • Panegyrize,
  • peg,
  • dignify,
  • compartment,
  • strike off,
  • grapple,
  • divert,
  • fill out,
  • qualify,
  • glimpse,
  • pull out,
  • distract,
  • mind,
  • find,
  • disconnect,
  • hand-pick,
  • fall upon,
  • have it off,
  • grace,
  • refer,
  • painful,
  • entitle,
  • recognise,
  • cent,
  • land,
  • tell apart,
  • flash,
  • select,
  • come upon,
  • appropriate,
  • ramify,
  • punctuate,
  • give prominence to,
  • take aside,
  • tell the difference,
  • adorn,
  • define,
  • break down,
  • cross off,
  • behold,
  • sophisticate,
  • make do,
  • abstract,
  • espy,
  • accent,
  • branch,
  • take,
  • enrich,
  • fill-in,
  • nitpick,
  • taste,
  • clumsy,
  • choose,
  • spot,
  • realize,
  • assort,
  • order,
  • describe,
  • impart,
  • smell,
  • type,
  • split up,
  • draw,
  • characterized,
  • lay eyes on,
  • christen,
  • focus,
  • pick up on,
  • pay tribute to,
  • modify,
  • compartmentalize,
  • relegate,
  • reward,
  • favour,
  • judge,
  • fasten on,
  • severalise,
  • group,
  • dissociate,
  • different,
  • disagreement,
  • understand,
  • cull,
  • bonk,
  • list,
  • wooden,
  • finger,
  • difference,
  • depict,
  • happen upon,
  • prefer,
  • acknowledge,
  • recite,
  • chance upon,
  • analyze,
  • assail,
  • know again,
  • fall apart,
  • respect,
  • demarcate,
  • impose,
  • scent,
  • signalize,
  • not to,
  • accentuate,
  • see,
  • view,
  • highlight,
  • recognition,
  • acknowledgment,
  • cut,
  • additional,
  • distribute,
  • eff,
  • ID,
  • strike,
  • characterize,
  • subtilize,
  • upraise,
  • decide,
  • set eyes on,
  • categorize,
  • esteem,
  • inconvenient,
  • state,
  • secern,
  • diversify,
  • differ,
  • reveal,
  • apprehend,
  • come,
  • speciate,
  • screen out,
  • report,
  • split,
  • stamp,
  • declare,
  • put aside,
  • make,
  • determine,
  • look at,
  • sift out,
  • pick,
  • Clepe,
  • have in sight,
  • screw,
  • match,
  • steal,
  • subdivide,
  • stand between,
  • sense,
  • contradiction,
  • recount,
  • codify,
  • Desynonymize,
  • decipher,
  • withdraw,
  • credit,
  • note,
  • appreciate,
  • get a line,
  • agnise,
  • determinate,
  • lie with,
  • carve up,
  • come apart,
  • mark out,
  • accredit,
  • particularize,
  • furcate,
  • give away,
  • pinpoint,
  • tag,
  • discerning,
  • polish,
  • get wind of,
  • call,
  • get laid,
  • score,
  • agnize,
  • honour,
  • learn about,
  • scar,
  • sight,
  • discriminating,
  • intuit,
  • get word,
  • eliminate,
  • demark,
  • stress,
  • eye,
  • disunite,
  • get a load of,
  • inept,
  • witness,
  • look upon,
  • trace,
  • hear about,
  • extricate,
  • vary,
  • celebrate,
  • emancipate,
  • purloin,
  • sort out,
  • personalize,
  • figure out,
  • classify,
  • quibble,
  • line,
  • upgrade,
  • same,
  • knowledge,
  • signal,
  • organize,
  • sieve,
  • get it on,
  • bring out,
  • change,
  • keynote,
  • decode,
  • Uprear,
  • domain,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • disagree,
  • recognize,
  • appoint,
  • baptize,
  • acute,
  • fleck,
  • area,
  • collate,
  • praise,
  • country,
  • pit,
  • account,
  • style,
  • awkward,
  • singularize,
  • dissever,
  • sensory,
  • set against,
  • hump,
  • advert,
  • sever,
  • screen,
  • diagnose,
  • get an eyeful,
  • show appreciation,
  • know,
  • collide,
  • deduce,
  • rank,
  • ascertain,
  • blob,
  • magnify,
  • distinguish between,
  • extremity,
  • pock,
  • perception,
  • sort,
  • part,
  • digest,
  • memorialize,
  • watch,
  • divulge,
  • borough,
  • divorce,
  • blot,
  • unwieldy,
  • celebrity,
  • cross out,
  • immortalize,
  • ennoble,
  • dissimilarity,
  • better,
  • give evidence,
  • sieve out,
  • unwrap,
  • exalts,
  • admire,
  • observe,
  • deal,
  • dandify,
  • winnow,
  • come across,
  • assure,
  • advance,
  • raise,
  • sentient,
  • look,
  • let on,
  • underline,
  • honor,
  • set the pace,
  • tell,
  • get along,
  • set,
  • must not,
  • ungainly,
  • discriminatingly,
  • constitute,
  • township,
  • aggrandize,
  • attain,
  • write out,
  • mention,
  • left-handed,
  • split hairs,
  • know apart,
  • check off,
  • field,
  • sniff,
  • enjoin,
  • fix on,
  • ken,
  • break,
  • greet,
  • spy,
  • cope,
  • say,
  • comprehend,
  • manage,
  • Discriminately,
  • check,
  • specialise,
  • discrepancy,
  • uncomfortable,
  • DO,
  • realise,
  • erect,
  • categorise,
  • evidence,
  • have,
  • remove,
  • annoying,
  • keen,
  • range,
  • sensation,
  • blemish,
  • feel,
  • salute,
  • compare,
  • uplift,
  • pick out,
  • crude,
  • be intimate,
  • eyeball,
  • remark,
  • issue,
  • fare,
  • complete,
  • name,
  • make out,
  • love,
  • emphasize,
  • strike out,
  • secernate,
  • atomise,
  • earmark,
  • dub,
  • nock,
  • let out,
  • brand,
  • perceive,
  • underscore,
  • divergence,
  • key,
  • disclose,
  • embarrassing,
  • fuck,
  • tick off,
  • catch,
  • improve,
  • disengage,
  • aggrandise,
  • key out,
  • bed,
  • signalise,
  • disjoint,
  • Diagnosticate,
  • sublime.

Antonyms for Distinguish:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    camouflage, combine, conceal, condemn, confound, confuse, connect, counterfeit, denounce, disarrange, disgrace, disguise, disregard, join, jumble, link, lose, lump, mingle, misinterpret, miss, mistake, misunderstand, mix, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over, scramble, sham, shame, simulate, mix up, mistype, misclassify, missort, lump together.

• v.

  • discern, identify
    neglect, pass by, misinterpret.
  • make famous
    disgrace, reproach, denounce, condemn, shame, disregard.
  • tell the difference
    join, connect, overlook, combine, allow, confuse, lose, unite, mix up, link, ignore, miss, misunderstand.
  • Other antonyms:
    hide, add, disregard, confuse, unite, disguise, increase, disarrange, confound, combine, mistype, mingle, mix, camouflage, scramble, jumble, fill up, neglect, restore, simulate, ignore, conceal, overlook, overpass, miss, lump, feign, conjoin, sham, counterfeit, pass over, complete, mistake, strengthen.