Thesaurus: descriptive

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
3. adj. of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
4. 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.
5. Tending to describe; having the quality of representing;containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptivephrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the formsand relations of parts, but not of their textures.-- Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats ofthe graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by meansof projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) --De*scrip"tive*ly, adv.-- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.
6. j:100 a. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description a. describing the structure of a language