Descriptive - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˈskrɪptɪv|
Brit.
|dɪˈskrɪptɪv|
adjective
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
the descriptive variable
a descriptive passage
- of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usagea descriptive passage
descriptive grammar
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She gave a descriptive account of the journey.
The black cat was given the descriptive name “Midnight.”
The book is a descriptive grammar.
The writer runs to descriptive details.
The report is more judgemental than descriptive.
The first part of the paper is a descriptive survey of mortality data from United Nations sources over the period 1970-90.
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