English

Adjective

distingue ‎(comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)

1. Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
   • 1873, Charles Reade, A Simpleton, page 105:

     but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingue touch, she charged one pound eight.

   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker, page 158:

     And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingue-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.

   • 2001, Emile Gaboriau, Mystery of Oricval, page 158:

     It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how!

See also

• distinctive

Translations

French

Verb

distingue

1. first-person singular present indicative of distinguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of distinguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of distinguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of distinguer
5. second-person singular imperative of distinguer

Italian

Verb

distingue

1. third-person singular indicative present of distinguere

Anagrams

• disgiunte

Latin

Verb

distingue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of distinguō

Middle English

Verb

to distingue

1. To distinguish.
   • 1430-1450, Robert Steele (ed.); Early English Text Society, Alexander, The Earliest Arithmetics in English (1973), page 51:

     ... some vsen forto distingue the nombre by threes

Portuguese

Verb

distingue

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of distinguir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of distinguir

Spanish

Verb

distingue

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of distinguir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of distinguir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of distinguir.