'Descriptive' definitions:
Definition of 'descriptive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [ant: undescriptive]
adjective
Describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar" [ant: normative, prescriptive]
Definition of 'Descriptive'
From: GCIDE
- Descriptive \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'descriptive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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