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What is "descriptive" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does descriptive mean in English? Meaning of descriptive definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "descriptive" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "descriptive": serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

Adjective

  • Meaning: serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
  • Example: the descriptive variable a descriptive passage
  • Synonyms: descriptive
  • Antonyms: undescriptive

    • Pronunciation in UK: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪv/

    Meaning of "descriptive": describing the structure of a language

    Adjective

  • Meaning: describing the structure of a language
  • Example: descriptive grammar
  • Synonyms: descriptive
  • Antonyms: normative prescriptive

    • Pronunciation in UK: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪv/

  • Adjective: Of or relating to description.(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).(linguistics)   Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.(sciences, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive. 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:  He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:  He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

    • Synonyms:

    detailed, vivid, eloquent, illuminating, pictorial, expressive, definitive, characteristic, circumstantial, clear, expository, extended, graphic, illustrative, indicative, lifelike, narrative, picturesque, specific, delineative, explicative, illuminative, interpretive, revealing, identifying, anecdotic, characterizing, classificatory, depictive, describing, designating, particularized, true to life,

    Antonyms:

    confusing, cursory, dull, undescriptive,

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    descriptive in English: descriptive
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