ADJECTIVE (2)

1. tending to select; characterized by careful choice;
- Example: "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown

2. characterized by very careful or fastidious selection;
- Example: "the school was very selective in its admissions"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Selective \Se*lect"ive\, a.
   Selecting; tending to select.
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         This selective providence of the Almighty. --Bp. Hall.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "selective":
   accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, censorious, choicy,
   choosing, choosy, clannish, cliquish, conscientious, constituent,
   critical, delicate, demanding, differential, discerning,
   discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory,
   distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elect, elective, electoral,
   ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive,
   exclusory, fastidious, fine, inadmissible, insular, meticulous,
   narrow, nice, parochial, particular, perfectionistic, picky,
   precise, precisianistic, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive,
   priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic,
   refined, restrictive, scrupulous, seclusive, segregative, select,
   selecting, sensitive, separative, snobbish, snobby, strict, subtle,
   tactful, xenophobic