Definition of descriptive in English:

descriptive

adjective dɪˈskrɪptɪvdəˈskrɪptɪv

1Serving or seeking to describe.
the text contains some good descriptive passages
Example sentencesExamples
- The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing.
- Most interesting to readers of Environmental History will be long, descriptive passages on the natural environment.
- I didn't find the plot particularly gripping, but the level of period detail in the book's descriptive passages was excellent.
- His descriptive passages are often a rhapsodic rush to the edge of sentimentality, only undercut in the final moment by a shift in tone.
- The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character.
- The woodland is seen through poetry, descriptive text and a mosaic of pictures.
- One of the strengths of this book lies in the descriptive passages.
- One has the sense of an actual, as opposed to a fictional, narrator forced to convey a plethora of background information about his characters, at the expense of descriptive detail and incident.
- The beautiful pictures and descriptive commentary showed what a fine country Zimbabwe is.
- Some of his descriptive passages are composed with great power and elegance.
- Indeed, the book is replete with descriptive detail.
- His descriptive letters painted a picture of life in Tasmania for readers back in England.
- There were no flowery. descriptive passages: it was almost entirely a dialogue exchange between the girl and her brother.
- The tale is more realistic, the characters deeper and troubled and the descriptive passages delightful.
- This book is primarily a descriptive work, seeking to provide detail about a specific historical missionary activity.
- James, who has just returned to school as a Year 10 pupil, chose to write the descriptive passage as a homework task for English.
- This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages.
- The descriptive passages make the reader feel as if he or she is actually present.
- A particularly concise and elegant passage of descriptive work comes from a fellow essayist.
- With brief yet descriptive passages moving quickly from one scene to another, he conveys a sustained air of urgency.
Synonyms
illustrative, expressive, pictorial, depictive, graphic, picturesque, vivid, striking
explanatory, elucidatory, explicative, exegetic, expository
detailed, lively, circumstantial
1. 1.1Grammar (of an adjective) assigning a quality rather than restricting the application of the expression modified, e.g. blue as distinct from few.
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Vibrant’ is actually one of the rare descriptive adjectives which I have never turned into an adverb.
  As stated earlier, the present study utilizes a semantic differential scale which was comprised of six contrasting descriptive adjectives.
  Sometimes the descriptive noun phrase has already been used in a previous clause, and to avoid repetition, the anaphor such is substituted.
  Freud recognized that the term ‘unconscious’ was better used as a descriptive adjective rather than as a topographical noun.
  As the number of negative descriptive adjectives increased, so did the youths' self-reported involvement in delinquency.
2Describing or classifying in an objective and non-judgemental way.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the book is objectively descriptive, be the focus spiritual or scientific.
- Classical, descriptive paleontology is very good at dealing with this sort of pattern.
- Even when intended to serve merely as descriptive terms of classification, the terms carry much historical and ideological baggage that bears on human rights concerns.
- The medical record, as a legal document, must contain factual, objective, descriptive data.
- One descriptive study evaluated the preparation, emotions, and experiences of parents during their child's anesthesia induction.
- Despite these limitations, descriptive studies, interpreted with suitable caution, can offer some useful insight to complement the data from studies using randomisation.
- As indicated above, we view this range as descriptive, not evaluative.
- The study was classified as a descriptive study.
- The incidence, location, and type of injury, time loss caused by injury, and onset of injury were evaluated by using descriptive statistics.
- Each portrait includes a descriptive evaluation of each space and a precis of its legal requirements, accompanied by a photograph and a scaled schematic site plan.
- Survey questions were initially evaluated using simple descriptive statistics.
- This descriptive study sought to develop a profile of women in the agricultural and extension education at the post-secondary level.
- These techniques are referred to as object oriented because they focus on modeling real-world objects, including both descriptive data and behavior.
- Facts (the objective) are descriptive, where events (the exemplary) partake in a process.
- The bulk of the volume consists of descriptive and interpretive catalogue entries for each mask.
- All good objects will have descriptive and administrative metadata.
- What becomes clear is that ‘there are no descriptive facts without interpretive theory’.
- It serves a descriptive and classificatory purpose only.
- The qualifying examinations were never objective, but descriptive.
- The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate nurses' acceptance and use of an IV catheter safety needle designed to reduce injuries.
Synonyms
explaining, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation
1. 2.1Linguistics Denoting or relating to an approach to language analysis that describes accents, forms, structures, and usage without making value judgements.
  Often contrasted with prescriptive
  Example sentencesExamples
  The main argument concerns the relationship between syntactic, textual, and ideological analysis, and the descriptive methods required in text analysis.
  There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax.
  Such an analytic and descriptive approach has many advantages.
  There's definitely such a thing as a syntactic error, even in your native language, even as judged by descriptive linguists.
  He seems, first of all, to misunderstand that dictionaries of the English language are descriptive, not prescriptive.

Derivatives

descriptively

adverb dɪˈskrɪptɪvlidəˈskrɪptɪvli

Responses were analyzed descriptively, using measures of frequency distribution, central tendency, and dispersion.
Example sentencesExamples
- I will pick ten of the best questions, list them on a post and answer them as descriptively and authoritatively as I can.
- As a concession to popular usage, he sometimes referred to it as a tax, but he never considered the term descriptively accurate.
- Yet while the book excels descriptively, it falls short analytically and prescriptively.
- ‘Privatization’ is both descriptively appropriate for the policy in question and it has been the accepted term embraced by both sides of the debate for roughly a quarter century.

descriptiveness

noun

The secondary classification softens the hierarchy and increases descriptiveness by allowing another relevant condition to be coded.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I remember everything about growing up,’ she says, and it shows in her novel's lush descriptiveness.
- The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.
- Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time.
- Papers didn't always live up to the grand claims of the opening plenary and the odd presentation lapsed into the kind of mundane and myopic descriptiveness that has given close analysis such a bad run in the recent past.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- 'written down', from the verb describere (see describe).

Definition of descriptive in US English:

descriptive

adjectivedəˈskriptivdəˈskrɪptɪv

1Serving or seeking to describe.
the text contains some good descriptive passages
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, the book is replete with descriptive detail.
- Most interesting to readers of Environmental History will be long, descriptive passages on the natural environment.
- The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing.
- The tale is more realistic, the characters deeper and troubled and the descriptive passages delightful.
- His descriptive passages are often a rhapsodic rush to the edge of sentimentality, only undercut in the final moment by a shift in tone.
- There were no flowery. descriptive passages: it was almost entirely a dialogue exchange between the girl and her brother.
- Some of his descriptive passages are composed with great power and elegance.
- The descriptive passages make the reader feel as if he or she is actually present.
- The beautiful pictures and descriptive commentary showed what a fine country Zimbabwe is.
- His descriptive letters painted a picture of life in Tasmania for readers back in England.
- The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character.
- With brief yet descriptive passages moving quickly from one scene to another, he conveys a sustained air of urgency.
- A particularly concise and elegant passage of descriptive work comes from a fellow essayist.
- I didn't find the plot particularly gripping, but the level of period detail in the book's descriptive passages was excellent.
- This book is primarily a descriptive work, seeking to provide detail about a specific historical missionary activity.
- One of the strengths of this book lies in the descriptive passages.
- This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages.
- One has the sense of an actual, as opposed to a fictional, narrator forced to convey a plethora of background information about his characters, at the expense of descriptive detail and incident.
- The woodland is seen through poetry, descriptive text and a mosaic of pictures.
- James, who has just returned to school as a Year 10 pupil, chose to write the descriptive passage as a homework task for English.
Synonyms
illustrative, expressive, pictorial, depictive, graphic, picturesque, vivid, striking
1. 1.1Grammar (of an adjective) assigning a quality rather than restricting the application of the expression modified, e.g. blue as distinct from few.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Freud recognized that the term ‘unconscious’ was better used as a descriptive adjective rather than as a topographical noun.
  As the number of negative descriptive adjectives increased, so did the youths' self-reported involvement in delinquency.
  Sometimes the descriptive noun phrase has already been used in a previous clause, and to avoid repetition, the anaphor such is substituted.
  ‘Vibrant’ is actually one of the rare descriptive adjectives which I have never turned into an adverb.
  As stated earlier, the present study utilizes a semantic differential scale which was comprised of six contrasting descriptive adjectives.
2Describing or classifying in an objective and nonjudgmental way.
Example sentencesExamples
- It serves a descriptive and classificatory purpose only.
- What becomes clear is that ‘there are no descriptive facts without interpretive theory’.
- These techniques are referred to as object oriented because they focus on modeling real-world objects, including both descriptive data and behavior.
- The study was classified as a descriptive study.
- All good objects will have descriptive and administrative metadata.
- Classical, descriptive paleontology is very good at dealing with this sort of pattern.
- The incidence, location, and type of injury, time loss caused by injury, and onset of injury were evaluated by using descriptive statistics.
- As indicated above, we view this range as descriptive, not evaluative.
- The qualifying examinations were never objective, but descriptive.
- Facts (the objective) are descriptive, where events (the exemplary) partake in a process.
- The medical record, as a legal document, must contain factual, objective, descriptive data.
- One descriptive study evaluated the preparation, emotions, and experiences of parents during their child's anesthesia induction.
- The bulk of the volume consists of descriptive and interpretive catalogue entries for each mask.
- Each portrait includes a descriptive evaluation of each space and a precis of its legal requirements, accompanied by a photograph and a scaled schematic site plan.
- Most of the book is objectively descriptive, be the focus spiritual or scientific.
- Survey questions were initially evaluated using simple descriptive statistics.
- The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate nurses' acceptance and use of an IV catheter safety needle designed to reduce injuries.
- Despite these limitations, descriptive studies, interpreted with suitable caution, can offer some useful insight to complement the data from studies using randomisation.
- Even when intended to serve merely as descriptive terms of classification, the terms carry much historical and ideological baggage that bears on human rights concerns.
- This descriptive study sought to develop a profile of women in the agricultural and extension education at the post-secondary level.
Synonyms
explaining, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation
1. 2.1Linguistics Denoting or relating to an approach to language analysis that describes accents, forms, structures, and usage without making value judgments.
  Often contrasted with prescriptive
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's definitely such a thing as a syntactic error, even in your native language, even as judged by descriptive linguists.
  Such an analytic and descriptive approach has many advantages.
  There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax.
  The main argument concerns the relationship between syntactic, textual, and ideological analysis, and the descriptive methods required in text analysis.
  He seems, first of all, to misunderstand that dictionaries of the English language are descriptive, not prescriptive.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- ‘written down’, from the verb describere (see describe).

单词	descriptive
释义	Definition of descriptive in English: descriptive adjective dɪˈskrɪptɪvdəˈskrɪptɪv 1Serving or seeking to describe. the text contains some good descriptive passages Example sentencesExamples The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing. Most interesting to readers of Environmental History will be long, descriptive passages on the natural environment. I didn't find the plot particularly gripping, but the level of period detail in the book's descriptive passages was excellent. His descriptive passages are often a rhapsodic rush to the edge of sentimentality, only undercut in the final moment by a shift in tone. The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character. The woodland is seen through poetry, descriptive text and a mosaic of pictures. One of the strengths of this book lies in the descriptive passages. One has the sense of an actual, as opposed to a fictional, narrator forced to convey a plethora of background information about his characters, at the expense of descriptive detail and incident. The beautiful pictures and descriptive commentary showed what a fine country Zimbabwe is. Some of his descriptive passages are composed with great power and elegance. Indeed, the book is replete with descriptive detail. His descriptive letters painted a picture of life in Tasmania for readers back in England. There were no flowery. descriptive passages: it was almost entirely a dialogue exchange between the girl and her brother. The tale is more realistic, the characters deeper and troubled and the descriptive passages delightful. This book is primarily a descriptive work, seeking to provide detail about a specific historical missionary activity. James, who has just returned to school as a Year 10 pupil, chose to write the descriptive passage as a homework task for English. This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages. The descriptive passages make the reader feel as if he or she is actually present. A particularly concise and elegant passage of descriptive work comes from a fellow essayist. With brief yet descriptive passages moving quickly from one scene to another, he conveys a sustained air of urgency. Synonyms illustrative, expressive, pictorial, depictive, graphic, picturesque, vivid, striking explanatory, elucidatory, explicative, exegetic, expository detailed, lively, circumstantial 1.1Grammar (of an adjective) assigning a quality rather than restricting the application of the expression modified, e.g. blue as distinct from few. Example sentencesExamples ‘Vibrant’ is actually one of the rare descriptive adjectives which I have never turned into an adverb. As stated earlier, the present study utilizes a semantic differential scale which was comprised of six contrasting descriptive adjectives. Sometimes the descriptive noun phrase has already been used in a previous clause, and to avoid repetition, the anaphor such is substituted. Freud recognized that the term ‘unconscious’ was better used as a descriptive adjective rather than as a topographical noun. As the number of negative descriptive adjectives increased, so did the youths' self-reported involvement in delinquency. 2Describing or classifying in an objective and non-judgemental way. Example sentencesExamples Most of the book is objectively descriptive, be the focus spiritual or scientific. Classical, descriptive paleontology is very good at dealing with this sort of pattern. Even when intended to serve merely as descriptive terms of classification, the terms carry much historical and ideological baggage that bears on human rights concerns. The medical record, as a legal document, must contain factual, objective, descriptive data. One descriptive study evaluated the preparation, emotions, and experiences of parents during their child's anesthesia induction. Despite these limitations, descriptive studies, interpreted with suitable caution, can offer some useful insight to complement the data from studies using randomisation. As indicated above, we view this range as descriptive, not evaluative. The study was classified as a descriptive study. The incidence, location, and type of injury, time loss caused by injury, and onset of injury were evaluated by using descriptive statistics. Each portrait includes a descriptive evaluation of each space and a precis of its legal requirements, accompanied by a photograph and a scaled schematic site plan. Survey questions were initially evaluated using simple descriptive statistics. This descriptive study sought to develop a profile of women in the agricultural and extension education at the post-secondary level. These techniques are referred to as object oriented because they focus on modeling real-world objects, including both descriptive data and behavior. Facts (the objective) are descriptive, where events (the exemplary) partake in a process. The bulk of the volume consists of descriptive and interpretive catalogue entries for each mask. All good objects will have descriptive and administrative metadata. What becomes clear is that ‘there are no descriptive facts without interpretive theory’. It serves a descriptive and classificatory purpose only. The qualifying examinations were never objective, but descriptive. The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate nurses' acceptance and use of an IV catheter safety needle designed to reduce injuries. Synonyms explaining, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation 2.1Linguistics Denoting or relating to an approach to language analysis that describes accents, forms, structures, and usage without making value judgements. Often contrasted with prescriptive Example sentencesExamples The main argument concerns the relationship between syntactic, textual, and ideological analysis, and the descriptive methods required in text analysis. There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax. Such an analytic and descriptive approach has many advantages. There's definitely such a thing as a syntactic error, even in your native language, even as judged by descriptive linguists. He seems, first of all, to misunderstand that dictionaries of the English language are descriptive, not prescriptive. Derivatives descriptively adverb dɪˈskrɪptɪvlidəˈskrɪptɪvli Responses were analyzed descriptively, using measures of frequency distribution, central tendency, and dispersion. Example sentencesExamples I will pick ten of the best questions, list them on a post and answer them as descriptively and authoritatively as I can. As a concession to popular usage, he sometimes referred to it as a tax, but he never considered the term descriptively accurate. Yet while the book excels descriptively, it falls short analytically and prescriptively. ‘Privatization’ is both descriptively appropriate for the policy in question and it has been the accepted term embraced by both sides of the debate for roughly a quarter century. descriptiveness noun The secondary classification softens the hierarchy and increases descriptiveness by allowing another relevant condition to be coded. Example sentencesExamples ‘I remember everything about growing up,’ she says, and it shows in her novel's lush descriptiveness. The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration. Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time. Papers didn't always live up to the grand claims of the opening plenary and the odd presentation lapsed into the kind of mundane and myopic descriptiveness that has given close analysis such a bad run in the recent past. Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- 'written down', from the verb describere (see describe). Definition of descriptive in US English: descriptive adjectivedəˈskriptivdəˈskrɪptɪv 1Serving or seeking to describe. the text contains some good descriptive passages Example sentencesExamples Indeed, the book is replete with descriptive detail. Most interesting to readers of Environmental History will be long, descriptive passages on the natural environment. The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing. The tale is more realistic, the characters deeper and troubled and the descriptive passages delightful. His descriptive passages are often a rhapsodic rush to the edge of sentimentality, only undercut in the final moment by a shift in tone. There were no flowery. descriptive passages: it was almost entirely a dialogue exchange between the girl and her brother. Some of his descriptive passages are composed with great power and elegance. The descriptive passages make the reader feel as if he or she is actually present. The beautiful pictures and descriptive commentary showed what a fine country Zimbabwe is. His descriptive letters painted a picture of life in Tasmania for readers back in England. The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character. With brief yet descriptive passages moving quickly from one scene to another, he conveys a sustained air of urgency. A particularly concise and elegant passage of descriptive work comes from a fellow essayist. I didn't find the plot particularly gripping, but the level of period detail in the book's descriptive passages was excellent. This book is primarily a descriptive work, seeking to provide detail about a specific historical missionary activity. One of the strengths of this book lies in the descriptive passages. This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages. One has the sense of an actual, as opposed to a fictional, narrator forced to convey a plethora of background information about his characters, at the expense of descriptive detail and incident. The woodland is seen through poetry, descriptive text and a mosaic of pictures. James, who has just returned to school as a Year 10 pupil, chose to write the descriptive passage as a homework task for English. Synonyms illustrative, expressive, pictorial, depictive, graphic, picturesque, vivid, striking 1.1Grammar (of an adjective) assigning a quality rather than restricting the application of the expression modified, e.g. blue as distinct from few. Example sentencesExamples Freud recognized that the term ‘unconscious’ was better used as a descriptive adjective rather than as a topographical noun. As the number of negative descriptive adjectives increased, so did the youths' self-reported involvement in delinquency. Sometimes the descriptive noun phrase has already been used in a previous clause, and to avoid repetition, the anaphor such is substituted. ‘Vibrant’ is actually one of the rare descriptive adjectives which I have never turned into an adverb. As stated earlier, the present study utilizes a semantic differential scale which was comprised of six contrasting descriptive adjectives. 2Describing or classifying in an objective and nonjudgmental way. Example sentencesExamples It serves a descriptive and classificatory purpose only. What becomes clear is that ‘there are no descriptive facts without interpretive theory’. These techniques are referred to as object oriented because they focus on modeling real-world objects, including both descriptive data and behavior. The study was classified as a descriptive study. All good objects will have descriptive and administrative metadata. Classical, descriptive paleontology is very good at dealing with this sort of pattern. The incidence, location, and type of injury, time loss caused by injury, and onset of injury were evaluated by using descriptive statistics. As indicated above, we view this range as descriptive, not evaluative. The qualifying examinations were never objective, but descriptive. Facts (the objective) are descriptive, where events (the exemplary) partake in a process. The medical record, as a legal document, must contain factual, objective, descriptive data. One descriptive study evaluated the preparation, emotions, and experiences of parents during their child's anesthesia induction. The bulk of the volume consists of descriptive and interpretive catalogue entries for each mask. Each portrait includes a descriptive evaluation of each space and a precis of its legal requirements, accompanied by a photograph and a scaled schematic site plan. Most of the book is objectively descriptive, be the focus spiritual or scientific. Survey questions were initially evaluated using simple descriptive statistics. The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate nurses' acceptance and use of an IV catheter safety needle designed to reduce injuries. Despite these limitations, descriptive studies, interpreted with suitable caution, can offer some useful insight to complement the data from studies using randomisation. Even when intended to serve merely as descriptive terms of classification, the terms carry much historical and ideological baggage that bears on human rights concerns. This descriptive study sought to develop a profile of women in the agricultural and extension education at the post-secondary level. Synonyms explaining, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation 2.1Linguistics Denoting or relating to an approach to language analysis that describes accents, forms, structures, and usage without making value judgments. Often contrasted with prescriptive Example sentencesExamples There's definitely such a thing as a syntactic error, even in your native language, even as judged by descriptive linguists. Such an analytic and descriptive approach has many advantages. There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax. The main argument concerns the relationship between syntactic, textual, and ideological analysis, and the descriptive methods required in text analysis. He seems, first of all, to misunderstand that dictionaries of the English language are descriptive, not prescriptive. Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- ‘written down’, from the verb describere (see describe).
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