1. serving to distinguish or differentiate between things; showing the ability to recognize differences
2. based on or showing prejudice; treating people unfairly because of their race, gender, or other characteristic
Usage: often used in legal and social contexts

Examples

• The test has good discriminative power because it clearly separates high-performing students from low-performing ones.
• Discriminative hiring practices are illegal in most countries.
• Dogs have a discriminative sense of smell that allows them to detect subtle odors.
• The new policy was criticized as discriminative against minority groups.
• A discriminative feature in machine learning helps the model tell different categories apart.
• The court ruled that the company's employment practices were discriminative.