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Characteristic
CHARACTERISTIC,
CHARACTERISTICAL, a. That constitutes the character; that marks the peculiar, distinctive qualities of a person or thing.
Generosity is often a characteristic virtue of a brave man.
It is followed by of.
Generosity is characteristic of true bravery.
CHARACTERISTIC, n.
1. That which constitutes a character; that which characterizes; that which distinguishes a person or thing from another.
Invention is the characteristic of Homer.
2. In grammar, the principal letter of a word, which is preserved in most of its tenses, in its derivatives and compounds.
The characteristic of a logarithm, is its index or exponent.
The characteristic triangle of a curve, in geometry, is a rectilinear right-angled triangle, whose hypotenuse makes a part of the curve, not sensibly different from a right line.
characteristic appears in definitions for these words:
Acid Ansers Ant Attribute Brutism Camel Characteristic Characteristically Chivalry Cockle Craniognomy Diagnostic Discriminative Effeminacy Fly Formal Formally Inflorescence Instability Laugh Method Neglect Pathognomonic Patriotism Physiognomy Picromel Proteus Retromingent Sexual Song Style Symptom Test Treat Uncharacteristic
Acid Ansers Ant Attribute Brutism Camel Characteristic Characteristically Chivalry Cockle Craniognomy Diagnostic Discriminative Effeminacy Fly Formal Formally Inflorescence Instability Laugh Method Neglect Pathognomonic Patriotism Physiognomy Picromel Proteus Retromingent Sexual Song Style Symptom Test Treat Uncharacteristic
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