descriptive
Of, relating to, or providing a description.
Other meanings
Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
Related words
- descriptivity
- indescriptive
- metadescriptive
- misdescriptive
- undescriptive
- autodescriptive
- descriptive adjective
- descriptive ethics
- descriptive geometry
- descriptively
- descriptiveness
- descriptive statistics
Word history
From Latin "descriptivus" (dēscriptīvus).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “descriptive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.