| 单词 | descriptive |
| 释义 | descriptive (once / 1397 pages) adj Descriptive language is vivid and specific, and helps someone imagine a scene he didn't witness. You probably hope that your friend who works at the morgue isn't too descriptive when you ask him how his day was. The word descriptive comes from the Latin descript-, meaning "written down." Something that is descriptive uses an account of words to give us a sense of what it's like. We usually use descriptive when people are very effective at conveying something. James Agee is an author who excels at descriptive writing, spending pages and pages beautifully describing the scene of a poor cabin in the moonlight. WORD FAMILYdescriptive: descriptively, descriptivism, undescriptive+/describable: indescribable/describe: describable, described, describes, describing, description, descriptive/description: descriptions/indescribable: indescribably/undescriptive: undescriptively USAGE EXAMPLES“It was very much high level and nothing in there was specifically descriptive of Russian activity.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) What the former assistant secretary of the Navy said is descriptive of the entire military. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) “Publicizing the notion that everyone stereotypes might create a descriptive social norm for stereotyping,” they concluded. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj serving to describe or inform or characterized by description the descriptive variable a descriptive passage Ant undescriptive not successful in describing 2adj describing the structure of a language descriptive grammar Ant normative, prescriptive pertaining to giving directives or rules |
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