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descriptive

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/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
descriptiveadjective
more descriptive
Comp.
most descriptive
Super.
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/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
Translations
The novel's descriptive passages vividly painted the landscape in the reader's mind.
Les passages descriptifs du roman peignaient vivement le paysage dans l’esprit du lecteur.
Definitions
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.
Synonyms
narrative
characteristic
depictive
expressive
detailed
representative
explanatory
illustrative
Antonyms
uninformative
nondescriptive
descriptivenoun
descriptives
pl
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/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
US
/dɪˈskrɪptɪv/
Rare; used in linguistics to mean "a descriptive word or phrase".
Translations
descriptifEn linguistique, pour désigner un mot ou un groupe de mots à valeur descriptive.
"Tall" in the phrase "a tall tree" is a descriptive.
« Tall » dans l’expression « a tall tree » est un descriptif.
Definitions
A descriptive word or phrase, especially an adjective.
"Tall" in the phrase "a tall tree" is a descriptive.
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