selective

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

selective
    adj 1: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an
           exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason
           Brown
    2: characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the
       school was very selective in its admissions"

from 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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from 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