Crossword-Solution: SELECTIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Selective | a. | Selecting; tending to select. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SELECTIVE | anagram | ELECTIVES |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SELECTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to select | 1 answer |
| Highly specific | 1 answer |
| Based on choice. | 1 answer |
| Part of SSS | 3 answers |
| Type of service | 6 answers |
| choosy | 10 answers |
| inhibiting | 31 answers |
| tying | 31 answers |
| bridling | 32 answers |
| retarding | 32 answers |
| Eclectic | 33 answers |
| qualifying | 33 answers |
| coercive | 34 answers |
| Hobbling | 35 answers |
| obstructive | 35 answers |
| prohibitive | 36 answers |
| Selective | 37 answers |
| concluding | 41 answers |
| final | 52 answers |
| Picky ___ | 57 answers |
| discriminating | 59 answers |
| conditional | 68 answers |
| BINDING ___ | 72 answers |
| Discerning | 76 answers |
| contingent | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SELECTIVE (5)
The new government has promised selective industrial intervention, some relaxation in monetary policy, and an improved social safety net, but will be constrained by the decline in output and the growing budget deficit.
There is the body of commercial publishers that do possess that kind of expertise in distribution and marketing but that obviously are selective.
Apparently their previous service record had been forgotten, When Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May, it was made to apply to all citizens alike.
Edgar Hoover had created over 60 years and 12 presidents ago was very selective about whom it admitted.
Make a note about the following general tricks: In conferences and forums: -------------------------- Many services have commands for selective reading of messages.
Quotes with SELECTIVE (3)
Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of his *ordo amoris*, values which have not yet been shaped into things and goods. He carries this shell along with him wherever he goes and cannot escape from it no matter how quickly he runs. He perceives the world and himself through the windows of this shell, and perceives no more of the world, of himself, or of anything else beside…
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
We knew each other to our fingertips. No, that's not right. We only knew each other in our fingertips, and that was nothing at all, and for a while that was okay. We could have been a love story, a fairy tale, an indie film about high school and selective insanity featuring a boy of angel parts and a girl made of dreaming. We could have been all the best things: bracelets sliding down arms while shots slid down throats, laughter and crashing music in dark and flashing rooms, …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2000).