Descriptive
[dɪ'skrɪptɪv]
Definition
(adj.) describing the structure of a language; 'descriptive grammar' .
(adj.) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; 'the descriptive variable'; 'a descriptive passage' .
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Typist: Willard
Examples
- Laying a marked emphasis on most unfortunate as if the words were rather descriptive of his connexion with Mr. Vholes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They have both a eulogistic or normative sense, and a descriptive sense; a meaning de jure and a meaning de facto. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It must be lovely, said Mrs. Vincy, when Lydgate mentioned his purchase with some descriptive touches. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Meanwhile she folds up a cocked hat for that redoubtable old general at Bath, descriptive of her melancholy condition. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He translated Cronstedt's book on mineralogy descriptive of the practical blow-pipe tests. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Here are some extracts from Carlyle descriptive of that unfortunate feast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You have given the name such reality of sweetness, that nothing else can now be descriptive of you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Now in the descriptive style there are few changes, but in the dramatic there are a great many. Plato. The Republic.
Typist: Willard