descriptive

UK
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
descriptiveadjektiv
more descriptive
Komp.
most descriptive
Super.
UK
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
Übersetzungen
The book provides a descriptive account of the historical events.
Книга дает описательный отчет о исторических событиях.
Definitionen
Serving or seeking to describe; providing details about something.
The novel's descriptive passages vividly painted the landscape in the reader's mind.
In linguistics or science: concerned with observing and describing how something actually is, rather than prescribing how it should be.
Descriptive grammar looks at the language people really use, without judging it as right or wrong.
descriptivesubstantiv
descriptives
Pl.
UK
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
Rare; used in linguistics to mean "a descriptive word or phrase".
Definitionen
A descriptive word or phrase, especially an adjective.
"Tall" in the phrase "a tall tree" is a descriptive.