[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"descriptive"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*]serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/undescriptive"]undescriptive[/URL]] [*]concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/synchronic"]synchronic[/URL]] [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/diachronic"]diachronic[/URL]] [*]describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/prescriptive"]prescriptive[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/descriptive"]http://www.word.sc/descriptive[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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