descriptive
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- Involving or characterized by description; serving to describe. adjective …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- Concerned with classification or description. adjective …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- Expressing an attribute of the modified noun, as green in green grass. Used of an adjective or adjectival clause. adjective …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- Nonrestrictive. adjective …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- Of or relating to the study or the description of a language or a specific stage of a language, with emphasis on constructing a grammar without regard to historical development, comparison with other languages, or advocated norms for correct or proper usage. adjective …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- In geometry: Pertaining to the projective methods of Monge. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Not containing the idea of quantity or measurement. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Containing description; serving or aiming to describe; having the quality of representing: as, a descriptive diagram; a descriptive narration. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Milit., a short military history of each enlisted man, with a description of his person, and an abstract of his account with the government. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- in geometry, usually defined to be a property or proposition which can be stated without introducing the idea of magnitude. But it would be better to say that it is a property or proposition which relates to the incidence or coincidence of points, lines, and other geometrical elements, in general, or that it is one which does not depend upon the particular system of measurement adopted. Thus, the proposition that two triangles are equal if a side and two angles of the one are equal to the corresponding side and angles of the other, may be regarded as descriptive; while the proposition that through any point in space a single parallel to a given line can be drawn, is indisputably metrical, not descriptive. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description adjective …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. adjective …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. adjective …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- Of, or relating to
description . adjective …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - Of an
adjective , stating anattribute of the associatednoun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary). adjective …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) Describing thestructure ,grammar ,vocabulary and actualuse of alanguage . adjective …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com)- Describing and seeking to
classify , as opposed tonormative orprescriptive . adjective …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - An
adjective (or other descriptive word) noun …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - describing the structure of a language adjective …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description adjective …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
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Etymology
- 1751, from Late Latin descriptivus, from descript-, past participle stem of describere (see description). Related: Descriptively; descriptiveness.1751
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