"descriptive" in the adjective sense
1. descriptive
serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
"the descriptive variable"
"a descriptive passage"
2. descriptive
of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
"descriptive grammar"
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