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Meaning of 'descriptive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Descriptive [ 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.

Meaning of 'descriptive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . descriptive [ a]
Meaning (1):
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
Example in sentence:
  • a descriptive passage;
  • the descriptive variable
Meaning (2):
- of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
Example in sentence:
  • descriptive grammar

Nearby Words:

descant descanted descanter descanting descend descendant descended descendent descender descendibility

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