About The Word Descriptive
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Descriptive
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What's The Definition Of Descriptive?
[adj] (grammar) describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
[adj] serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [adj] concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" Synonyms | Synonyms for Descriptive: synchronic Related Terms | Find terms related to Descriptive: constructional | constructive | definitional | delineative | depictive | diagnostic | exegetic | expositive | expressive | faithful | glottochronological | grammatic | graphemic | graphic | hermeneutic | interpretational | interpretive | lexicographic | lexicological | lexicostatistical | lifelike | lingual | linguistic | metalinguistic | morphological | morphophonemic | naturalistic | philological | phonemic | phonetic | phonological | psycholinguistic | realistic | representative | semantic | semeiological | structural | symptomatological | syntactic | tropological | true to life | vivid | well-drawn See Also | synchronal | synchronous Descriptive In Webster's Dictionary \De*scrip"tive\, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F.
descriptif.]
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.
--Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- {De*scrip"tive*ly}, adv.
-- {De*scrip"tive*ness}, n.
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