often followed by `from' Not alike; different in nature or quality:
— Plants of several distinct types.
— The word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses.
— Gold is distinct from iron.
— A tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech.
— Management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees.

synonym: distinguishable.

Roget 402: sounding; soniferous^†; sonorous, sonorific^†; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic^†.   

Roget 580: vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious etc. (melodious) 413.   

Roget 525: manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced.    flagrant; notorious etc. (public) 531; arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring.    defined, definite.    distinct, conspicuous etc. (visible) 446; obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident, autoptical^†; intelligible etc. 518.    plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church.    explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day; naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric.    unreserved, frank, plain-spoken etc. (artless) 703; candid (veracious) 543; barefaced.    manifested etc. v.; disclosed etc. 529; capable of being shown, producible; inconcealable^†, unconcealable; no secret.    ... show more

Roget 446: visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en vidence; unclouded, unobscured^†, in the foreground.    obvious etc. (manifest) 525; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical^†; glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief.    periscopic^†, panoramic.    before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one, +a vue d'oeil [Fr.], in one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 518: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous^†; luminous, transparent.    easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized.    plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite etc. (precise) 494.    graphic; expressive etc. (meaning) 516; illustrative etc. (explanatory) 522.    unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable etc. (manifest) 525; unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious etc. 525.    ... show more

Easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined.

Polish: wyraźny, wyrazisty

Constituting a separate entity or part:
— On two distinct occasions.

synonym: discrete.

Roget 44: disjoined etc. v.; discontinuous etc. 70; multipartite^†, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated etc. v.; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft^†.    [capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible^†, partible, separable.    ... show more

Recognizable; marked:
— Noticed a distinct improvement.
— At a distinct (or decided) disadvantage.

synonym: decided.

Roget 535: asserting etc. v.; declaratory, predicatory^†, pronunciative^†, affirmative, soi-disant [Fr.]; positive; certain etc. 474; express, explicit etc. (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted^†; predicable.    ... show more

Clearly or sharply defined to the mind:
— Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest.
— Trenchant distinctions between right and wrong.

synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant.