Definition of Descriptive

1. Adjective. Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description. "A descriptive passage"

Derivative terms: Describe
Antonyms: Undescriptive

2. Adjective. Describing the structure of a language. "Descriptive grammar"
Category relationships: Grammar
Antonyms: Prescriptive

Definition of Descriptive

1. a. Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

Definition of Descriptive

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to description. ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as ''heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary''). ¹

3. Adjective. (context: linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: science philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive. ¹

5. Noun. (grammar) An adjective (or other descriptive word) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Descriptive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Descriptive

1. Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. Which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Descrip"tively, Descrip"tiveness. Origin: L. Descriptivus: cf. F. Descriptif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descriptive

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describent
describents
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describers
describes
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descried
descrier
descriers
descries
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description logic
descriptional
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descriptive myology
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descriptiveness

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