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Adjective: descriptive  di'skrip-tiv
  1. Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
    "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
     
  2. Describing the structure of a language
    "descriptive grammar"

See also: describe, descriptively

Antonym: prescriptive, undescriptive

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