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Another word for descriptive

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Adjective

  1. Serving to describe

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Another word for descriptive

Modifier
  1. See also:

    graphic

    explanatory

    characteristic

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Sentence Examples

  • The descriptive parts of my novel found favour.

  • See the valuable General Descriptive Report on the Bahama Islands, by Sir G.

  • The map of Marinus and the descriptive accounts which accompanied it have perished, but we learn sufficient concerning them from Ptolemy to be able to appreciate their merits and demerits.

  • The former is particular or descriptive; the latter is general.

  • descriptive of the Zoolus: their Manners, Customs, &c. (2 vols.

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