Definitions for descriptive

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descriptive de·scrip·tive

Spelling: [dih-skrip-tiv]

IPA: /dɪˈskrɪp tɪv/

Descriptive is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 792 anagrams from letters in descriptive (cdeeiiprstv).

Definitions for descriptive

adjective

1. having the quality of describing; characterized by description:
2. Grammar. (of an adjective or other modifier) expressing a quality of the word it modifies, as fresh in fresh milk. Compare limiting (def 2). (of a clause) nonrestrictive. Compare restrictive (def 4).
3. noting, concerned with, or based upon the fact or experience.
4. characterized by or based upon the classification and description of material in a given field:

Origin of descriptive

1745-55; Late Latin dēscrīptīvus, equivalent to Latin dēscrīpt(us) (see description) + -īvus -ive

Examples for descriptive

An elementary course followed by a course in descriptive geometry.

We just wanted to hear the dry, descriptive case that BDS, for better or worse, is gaining ground.

Wagner's motives are marvellous in their descriptive and soul-stirring power.

Even her descriptive imagery, when describing landscapes, is Kikuyu.

The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.

It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.

The problem of the descriptive course is the problem of the high school.

In subject they are either erotic, mythologic, or descriptive of nature.

The former is particular or descriptive; the latter is general.

And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.