descriptive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   describing the structure of a language

   descriptive grammar

2. 2
   adj

   serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

   the descriptive variable

3. 3
   adj

   Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.

   He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

4. 4
   adj

   Of, relating to, or providing a description.

5. 5
   adj

   Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).

6. 6
   adj

   Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.

7. 7
   noun

   An adjective (or other descriptive word)

Etymology

From Latin dēscriptīvus (“containing a full description”).