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say it: di-SKRIP-tiv
descriptive is an adjective meaning "serving to describe or inform or characterized by description". It is pronounced /dɪˈskɹɪptɪv/ — di-SKRIP-tiv. It carries 2 recorded senses.
serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
“the descriptive variable”
“a descriptive passage”
of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
“descriptive grammar”
linguistics
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for descriptive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.