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

Antonyms for Distinguish:

• 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:
    ignore, scramble, disregard, pass over, overlook, mingle, combine, miss, overpass, conjoin, increase, conceal, fill up, neglect, restore, mix, strengthen, feign, jumble, hide, counterfeit, disguise, simulate, unite, sham, disarrange, mistake, camouflage, add, complete, mistype, lump.

Homophones for Distinguish:

• decadence, dejectedness, decoding, dissidence, deck tennis, detecting, disquieting, dichotomise, decadency, disgusting, deciding, dichotomize, dictamnus, Dustiness, distance, dichotomous, doggedness.

Hypernym for Distinguish:

• v.

  • communication
    singularize, singularise.

Hyponym for Distinguish:

• v.

  • communication
    mark.