descriptive
adjective
having the quality of describing; characterized by description.
descriptively
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a word derived from
descriptive.
Example Sentences
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The Ultra moniker adds the innovative and descriptively named Empty Wash Fill dock, slated for release on May 2nd.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
In recent decades, Congress has become much more descriptively representative of the United States.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Accusing her friends of cowardice made less sense — not just morally, in terms of outrage, but also descriptively, in terms of comprehension — once she abandoned these assumptions.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
By now, he cited “a lot of time in nutrition,” and “a lot of time in our sports-science people,” and “a little bit different-looking team” and, most descriptively, “wider behinds in there.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2016
He was known descriptively as the "Snowball of the Nile."
From A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by S. G. Bayne
