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. Brian McNoldy:

   The cone graphics try to be everything to everyone, and the end result is a complicated graphic that might not necessarily meet its goals, although all of its components are described on the graphic itself, people don't always read legends or descriptive text.

2. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.:

   It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

3. 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,'.

4. 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.

5. Harry Harris/AP:

   It’s the thing the mainstream fears the most, it’s a beautiful speech and it’s descriptive of integration. It sounds really good. And then you understand – whew – the work that’s required.