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descriptive

/dɪ'skrɪptɪv/

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adjective
of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
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"descriptive grammar"
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prescriptive
serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
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"the descriptive variable" "a descriptive passage"
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undescriptive

Definition that contains descriptive

proactive descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
epithet descriptive word or phrase
retroactive descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously