Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Adjective: descriptive  di'skrip-tiv
  1. Serving to describe, inform or characterized by description
    "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
     
  2. (linguistics) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
    "descriptive grammar"

Antonym: prescriptive, undescriptive

Encyclopedia: Descriptive

Nearest

descensus
descensus uteri
descent
descope
descramble
describable
describe
described
describer
description
descriptive
descriptive adjective
descriptive anthropology
descriptive clause
descriptive geometry
descriptive grammar
descriptive linguistics
descriptively
descriptivism
descriptor
descry