Found 3 items, similar to descriptive.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: descriptive deskriptif, menguraikan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: descriptive descriptive adj 1: serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; “the descriptive variable”; “a descriptive passage” [ant: undescriptive] 2: concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; “synchronic linguistics”; “descriptive linguistics” [syn: synchronic] [ant: diachronic] 3: describing the structure of a language; “descriptive linguistics simply describes language” [ant: prescriptive]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Descriptive Descriptive \De*scrip"tive\, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. [1913 Webster] Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]