Descriptive

Definition of Descriptive

De`scrip´tive

a.

1.

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.

Descriptive anatomy
that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.

Descriptive geometry
that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. - Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.

Related Words

constructional, constructive, definitional, delineative, depictive, diagnostic, exegetic, expositive, expressive, faithful, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, graphic, hermeneutic, interpretational, interpretive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, naturalistic, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, realistic, representative, semantic, semeiological, structural, symptomatological, syntactic, tropological, true to life, vivid, well-drawn

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