'Descriptively' definitions:
Definition of 'descriptively'
From: WordNet
adverb
By giving a description; "these topics need to be treated not just descriptively"
Definition of 'Descriptively'
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]