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descriptive
[dih-skrip-tiv]
adjective
having the quality of describing; characterized by description.
a descriptive passage in an essay.
Grammar.
(of an adjective or other modifier) expressing a quality of the word it modifies, as fresh in fresh milk.
(of a clause) nonrestrictive.
noting, concerned with, or based upon the fact or experience.
characterized by or based upon the classification and description of material in a given field.
descriptive botany.
descriptive
/ ɪˈɪɪ /
adjective
characterized by or containing description; serving to describe
grammar (of an adjective) serving to describe the referent of the noun modified, as for example the adjective brown as contrasted with my and former
relating to or based upon description or classification rather than explanation or prescription
descriptive linguistics
Other 51Թ Forms
- descriptively adverb
- descriptiveness noun
- nondescriptive adjective
- nondescriptively adverb
- nondescriptiveness noun
- overdescriptive adjective
- overdescriptively adverb
- overdescriptiveness noun
- self-descriptive adjective
- undescriptive adjective
- undescriptively adverb
- undescriptiveness noun
- ˈپԱ noun
- ˈپ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of descriptive1
Example Sentences
What a colorful, descriptive and absolutely apt adjective.
He named the brand Merch Motel because he found the phrase descriptive and liked its alliteration.
American Riviera Orchard “is primarily geographically descriptive,” the trademark office said, according to Vanity Fair.
Patent and Trademark Office in August rejected Meghan’s application “because the applied-for mark is primarily geographically descriptive,” Vanity Fair reported last month.
To generalize, we might describe Thracian art as embodying a barbaric style — not as a term of derision but merely descriptive of a blunt, skillful fierceness so often encountered in its forms.
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