descriptive
adjEtymology
From Latin dēscriptīvus (“containing a full description”).
- derived from descriptivus
Definitions
Of, relating to, or providing a description.
Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy…
Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
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Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
An adjective (or other descriptive word)
The neighborhood
- antonymprescriptiveantonym(s) of “science”
- antonymnormativeantonym(s) of “science”
- antonymnon-descriptiveantonym(s) of “science”
- neighbordescribe
- neighborself-descriptive
Derived
autodescriptive, descriptive adjective, descriptive ethics, descriptive geometry, descriptively, descriptiveness, descriptive statistics, descriptivism, descriptivist, descriptivistic, descriptivity, indescriptive, metadescriptive, misdescriptive, non-descriptive, overdescriptive, self-descriptive, undescriptive
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at descriptive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at descriptive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at descriptive
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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