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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective descriptive has 2 senses

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

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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.

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