descriptive

Speech parts

1. descriptive - Noun

2. descriptive - Adjective

Meaning

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

detailed narrative graphic expressive vivid indicative pictorial explanatory illustrative delineative depictive describing imagistic particular specific
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Antonyms

prescriptive undescriptive square historical cold DRY
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Phrases with the word

descriptive music descriptive analysis for descriptive purposes descriptive of jangling descriptive writing

Anagrams

discerptive

Examples

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory. Robert Aumann

American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. Ronald Coase

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth. Gregory Bateson

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. Louise Brooks

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. Jean Arp

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. Daniel Handler

Close letter words and terms

descriptionist descriptionistic descriptionless descriptive adjective descriptive analysis descriptive anthropology