descriptive

English Dictionary -> Letter D -> descriptive

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descriptive Definition

• (a) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
• (a) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"
• (a) describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"

descriptive Synonyms

• descriptive
• synchronic