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:

• 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.