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Definitions for descriptive
dɪˈskrɪp tɪvde·scrip·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
descriptiveadjective
serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
"the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
descriptiveadjective
describing the structure of a language
"descriptive grammar"
Wiktionary
descriptivenoun
An adjective (or other descriptive word)
Etymology: From descriptivus
descriptiveadjective
Of, or relating to description.
Etymology: From descriptivus
descriptiveadjective
Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
Etymology: From descriptivus
descriptiveadjective
Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
Etymology: From descriptivus
descriptiveadjective
Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
Etymology: From descriptivus
Webster Dictionary
Descriptiveadjective
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
Etymology: [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.]
Editors Contribution
descriptive
The use of language to describe.
The article was descriptive and accurate to describe the definition.
Submitted by MaryC on April 19, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of descriptive in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of descriptive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of descriptive in a Sentence
The cone graphics try to be everything to everyone, and the end result is a complicated graphic that might not necessarily meet its goals, although all of its components are described on the graphic itself, people don't always read legends or descriptive text.
Social media data could provide descriptive information about health histories and behaviors that are helpful for building out the ` digital health phenotype ’ for patients, in a perfect, creative and well worked through digitally enabled world, real-time mining of social media content could be revealing allergies, medications or health problems that are otherwise unknown which could alter treatment decisions in an emergency situation and be life-saving.
We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'.
Today, the published literature is very descriptive on all the problems that happen. It’s just that doctors are divided and it’s not clear why there’s disagreement on something that’s so common.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.:
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
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- апіса́льныBelarusian
- описателен, нагледенBulgarian
- popisnýCzech
- deskriptivGerman
- deskriptiivinen, kuvailla, kuvaileva, todeta, esitelläFinnish
- 記述的な, 説明する, 限定用法のJapanese
- opisowyPolish
- descritivoPortuguese
- descriptivRomanian
- наглядный, описательныйRussian
- dȅskriptīvanSerbo-Croatian
- beskrivande, deskriptivSwedish
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