"descriptive" adjective serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [ant: undescriptive (http://word.sc/undescriptive)] concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: synchronic (http://word.sc/synchronic)] [ant: diachronic (http://word.sc/diachronic)] describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language" [ant: prescriptive (http://word.sc/prescriptive)] Source: http://www.word.sc/descriptive

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