Descriptive
Descriptive , adjective
[Latin descriptivus: compare French descriptif.]
Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Collocations (2)
Descriptive anatomy , that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.
Descriptive geometry , that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. — Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )