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
Kimber, the first winner of “The Great British Bake Off,” writes clearly, succinctly and descriptively.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020
That again also feels descriptively wrong based on what we’re seeing right now.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2020
Having thus, as he presumes, cleared the ground for the absolute and exclusive dominion of the positive method, M. Comte proceeds to erect the hierarchy, as he very descriptively calls it, of the several sciences.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
