descriptive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: de=scrip=tive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

descriptive, adj.
1 serving or seeking to describe (a descriptive writer).
2 describing or classifying without expressing feelings or judging (a purely descriptive account).
3 Linguistics describing a language without comparing, endorsing, or condemning particular usage, vocabulary, etc.
4 Gram. (of an adjective) describing the noun, rather than its relation, position, etc., e.g. blue as distinct from few.

Derivative

descriptively adv. descriptiveness n.

Etymology

LL descriptivus (as DESCRIBE)

THESAURUS

descriptive

constructional, constructive, definitional, delineative, depictive, diagnostic, exegetic, expositive, expressive, faithful, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, graphic, hermeneutic, interpretational, interpretive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, naturalistic, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, realistic, representative, semantic, semeiological, structural, symptomatological, syntactic, tropological, true to life, vivid, well-drawn

ROGET THESAURUS

descriptive

Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.