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descriptive

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1 descriptive

Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description.

Roget 594: descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic, storied; described ... show more

2 descriptive

Of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage.


Moby thesaurus: constructional, constructive, definitional, delineative, depictive, diagnostic, exegetic, expositive, expressive, faithful, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, graphic, hermeneutic, interpretational, interpretive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical ... show more.

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