specific

Adj

1. Explicit or definite.
2. Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
3. (in-compounds, sometimes) Special, distinctive or unique.
4. intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
5. Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
6. Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
7. Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
8. Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
9. Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
10. A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).

Noun

1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
3. Specification
4. (in-plural) The details; particulars.
5. The distinguishing part of a toponym.

Opposite of

generic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/

Etymology

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.

Synonyms

particular

special

concrete

definite

precise

peculiar

certain

exact

characteristic

fixed

proper

individual

especial

very

distinctive

drug

💊

unique

original

private

privy

professional

proportion

ratio

relative

representative

respective

separate

singular

spec

specialized

specified

specify

tangible

technical

tribal

typical

uncommon

unusual

such and such

obligative

single-order

specific nature

accurate

special,

chaplain

circumstance

clear

compare

detail

determinate

Translations

spécifique

específico

específico

spezifisch

specifico

specifiek

específic

ειδικός

précis

specyficzny

özgül

soortelijk

spesifik

charakterystyczny

συγκεκριμένος

Sentences

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