Synonyms for descriptive
dɪˈskrɪp tɪvde·scrip·tive

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1. descriptiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   normative, non-descriptive, prescriptive

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1. descriptiveadjective

   serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

   "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"

   Antonyms:
   undescriptive, prescriptive, normative

2. descriptiveadjective

   describing the structure of a language

   "descriptive grammar"

   Antonyms:
   normative, undescriptive, prescriptive

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1. List of paraphrases for "descriptive":

   narrative, friendly, how-to, description, document, illustrative

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1. Daniel Cameron:

   Today, the published literature is very descriptive on all the problems that happen. It’s just that doctors are divided and it’s not clear why there’s disagreement on something that’s so common.

2. Tracey Lomax:

   No one knows what it’s like to get a descriptive, detailed way of how someone you love died, a lot of people don’t get a description of how someone died in hospital. But for us, it was in the news every day. It was very hard to read. But it was unavoidable.

3. Elissa Weitzman:

   Social media data could provide descriptive information about health histories and behaviors that are helpful for building out the ` digital health phenotype ’ for patients, in a perfect, creative and well worked through digitally enabled world, real-time mining of social media content could be revealing allergies, medications or health problems that are otherwise unknown which could alter treatment decisions in an emergency situation and be life-saving.

4. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid:

   My staff has always said, 'Don't say this,' but I'm going to say it again because it's so descriptive because it's true, in the summertime, because [of] the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.

5. Raj Dasgupta:

   We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'.