And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.
It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.
Even her descriptive imagery, when describing landscapes, is Kikuyu.
We just wanted to hear the dry, descriptive case that BDS, for better or worse, is gaining ground.
In subject they are either erotic, mythologic, or descriptive of nature.
The former is particular or descriptive; the latter is general.
The problem of the descriptive course is the problem of the high school.
An elementary course followed by a course in descriptive geometry.
Wagner's motives are marvellous in their descriptive and soul-stirring power.
1751, from Late Latin descriptivus, from descript-, past participle stem of describere (see description). Related: Descriptively; descriptiveness.
