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Definition of descriptive in English English dictionary: Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language; Of, or relating to description; An adjective (or other descriptive word); Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary); Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive; {a} containing description; describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"; 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; concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"; Descriptive language or writing indicates what someone or something is like. his descriptive way of writing; {s} serving to describe, representational, illustrative; (Grammar-of an adjective) attributive, that states an attribute of the related noun; nonrestrictive, not restrictive, without limitations; serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage; serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"; describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language" serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage; diagraphic; diagraphical
descriptive ethics: The study of people's beliefs about morality, in contrast to normative ethics and metaethics
descriptive geometries: plural form of descriptive geometry
descriptive geometry: A graphical protocol which creates three-dimensional virtual space on a two-dimensional plane
descriptive statistics: A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile
descriptive-geometry: Attributive form of descriptive geometry
descriptive-geometry textbook.
descriptive adjective: an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun e
descriptive adjective: `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice'
descriptive clause: A nonrestrictive clause
descriptive paragraph: {i} paragraph that describes a location or a person, paragraph that describes an idea or a feeling
auctorial descriptive: An adjective based on an authors' name
Examples: Borgesian, Kafkaesque, Brechtian, Joycean, Orwellian, Pinteresque, Sadistic, Machiavellian, and Draconian.
descriptively: by giving a description; "these topics need to be treated not just descriptively
descriptively: by giving a description; "these topics need to be treated not just descriptively"
descriptively: In a descriptive manner
descriptively: illustratively, with characterization
descriptiveness: {i} quality of being illustrative or descriptive
descriptiveness: The characteristic of being descriptive