descriptive

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. Source: opted

2. adj. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description Source: wordnet

3. adj. of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

6. j:100 a. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description a. describing the structure of a language Source: ecdict

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