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Descriptive

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or providing a description.
  2. 2
    Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
  3. 3
    Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
  4. 4
    Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.

    "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage wordnet
  2. 2
    serving to describe or inform or characterized by description wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An adjective (or other descriptive word)

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin dēscriptīvus (“containing a full description”).

Etymology 2

From Latin dēscriptīvus (“containing a full description”).

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