descriptive
— Adjective
– English
~ serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
descriptive
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage; "descriptive grammar"
descriptive adjective
— Noun
– English
~ an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')
descriptive anthropology
— Noun
– English
~ the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
descriptive clause
— Noun
– English
~ a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies