descriptive
adjective
having the quality of describing; characterized by description.
self-descriptive
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a word derived from
descriptive.
Example Sentences
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Do we assess these through multiple-choice questionnaires, checklists of self-descriptive adjectives, ink blots, life records or one-on-one interviews?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2018
That’s due in part to the self-descriptive slacker ballad “Sadly Beautiful,” but it’s due most of all to “Nobody,” a dissolute blast of pop, rock, and soul that Mehr, oddly, doesn’t even mention.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, he notes, is “maybe the most self-descriptive album title in all pop, apart from Trogglodynamite by the Troggs.”
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
And if they don’t want to be quite this blatant in their self-promotion, they might ask the tattoo artist to write the self-descriptive word in a foreign language.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2013
He runs mySociety, a non-profit organisation founded in 2003 that builds simple web-based tools with self-descriptive names like “faxyourmp” and “fixmystreet”.
From Economist ● Feb. 4, 2010
