Descriptive
adjective
Giving detailed information about something.
He gave a descriptive account of the journey.
Often appears as...
- descriptive language
- descriptive writing
adjective
Relating to the describing or categorizing of something.
The book includes a descriptive analysis of the data.
Often appears as...
- descriptive statistics
- descriptive study
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Used for describing someone or something.
These descriptive adjectives make the sentence more interesting.
Often appears as...
- descriptive adjectives
- descriptive words
adjective
Giving detailed information about something.
He gave a descriptive account of the journey.
Often appears as...
- descriptive language
- descriptive writing
adjective
Relating to the describing or categorizing of something.
The book includes a descriptive analysis of the data.
Often appears as...
- descriptive statistics
- descriptive study
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Used for describing someone or something.
These descriptive adjectives make the sentence more interesting.
Often appears as...
- descriptive adjectives
- descriptive words
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Imagery Enhancement
Use 'descriptive' to paint a vivid mind picture, helping readers visualize the subject.
His descriptive language made me feel like I was actually in the garden.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Importance
Adding 'descriptive' elements can explain a complex subject more clearly.
Her descriptive explanations cleared my confusion about the process.
Pro Tip 3/3Narrative Clarity
In storytelling, 'descriptive' details set the scene and mood for the reader.
The descriptive setting details took my breath away.
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Filming Africa’s Top...
Names, a lot of the names that we have adopted in the film were names that already existed for a lot of the characters out there. They are names that guides in the area and people had given them and most of the time they were functional, they earned their names. They were descriptive of their character
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Slowing down time (in...
and it's not enough to throw a couple adjectives in a sentence and call it done either. Descriptive writing is good writing, that's true. But if you want to express the feeling of slow motion in life, you have to actually take up more physical space on the page, use more film so to speak.
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How to create a great...
and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc
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The difference between...
I'm not a bad person and I've done good things in my life. I've done good things to people of color. And so therefore I can't be racist. I'm not that. That's not my identity. But that's actually not how we should be defining racist. Racist is a descriptive term.
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Safari Live - Day 360 PIPE...
to us that makes sense so for me until the name comes along we just kind of use descriptive names like you would have heard mohawk pale blond veil dark paint male so we use these descriptive names it's really helpful because it can we can tell who's who
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Ze Frank's web playroom
And she wrote a sort of descriptive set of what it felt like to have had this anxiety. And so what I decided to do. I said, "Okay, I'll think about it." And so quietly in the background, I started sending people this.
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A hilarious celebration...
because I know they need my counsel. They need my support, because most of my friends are writers, or activists, or actors, and you're all three and a long string of other descriptive phrases,
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How whistle-blowers...
It takes a tremendous amount of courage to come forward in the name of the truth. But when we think about the term whistle-blower, we often think of some very descriptive rat, snake, traitor,
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The way we think about...
we are not just being descriptive. Now, I think this is totally obvious, but the very obviousness of it raises what is for me an incredibly profound question. Why, if this is so obvious,
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How I hacked online...
So in the descriptive part up top, I said that I was an award-winning journalist and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date,
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Filming Africa’s Top...
Names, a lot of the names that we have adopted in the film were names that already existed for a lot of the characters out there. They are names that guides in the area and people had given them and most of the time they were functional, they earned their names. They were descriptive of their character
Video examples
Slowing down time (in...
and it's not enough to throw a couple adjectives in a sentence and call it done either. Descriptive writing is good writing, that's true. But if you want to express the feeling of slow motion in life, you have to actually take up more physical space on the page, use more film so to speak.
Video examples
How to create a great...
and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc
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The difference between...
I'm not a bad person and I've done good things in my life. I've done good things to people of color. And so therefore I can't be racist. I'm not that. That's not my identity. But that's actually not how we should be defining racist. Racist is a descriptive term.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 360 PIPE...
to us that makes sense so for me until the name comes along we just kind of use descriptive names like you would have heard mohawk pale blond veil dark paint male so we use these descriptive names it's really helpful because it can we can tell who's who
Video examples
Ze Frank's web playroom
And she wrote a sort of descriptive set of what it felt like to have had this anxiety. And so what I decided to do. I said, "Okay, I'll think about it." And so quietly in the background, I started sending people this.
Video examples
A hilarious celebration...
because I know they need my counsel. They need my support, because most of my friends are writers, or activists, or actors, and you're all three and a long string of other descriptive phrases,
Video examples
How whistle-blowers...
It takes a tremendous amount of courage to come forward in the name of the truth. But when we think about the term whistle-blower, we often think of some very descriptive rat, snake, traitor,
Video examples
The way we think about...
we are not just being descriptive. Now, I think this is totally obvious, but the very obviousness of it raises what is for me an incredibly profound question. Why, if this is so obvious,
Video examples
How I hacked online...
So in the descriptive part up top, I said that I was an award-winning journalist and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date,
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Ernst Haas
Austrian Photographer
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
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Richard Harmon
Canadian Actor
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.
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Kerry James Marshall
American Artist
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor. In some places, you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive.
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John Darnielle
American Musician
Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.
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Sarah Hall
English Writer
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
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Eric Gill
English Sculptor
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
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Charlie Parker
American Musician
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
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Robert Delaunay
French Artist
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
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Camryn Manheim
American Actress
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Ernst Haas
Austrian Photographer
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
Quote examples
Richard Harmon
Canadian Actor
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.
Quote examples
Kerry James Marshall
American Artist
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor. In some places, you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive.
Quote examples
John Darnielle
American Musician
Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.
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Sarah Hall
English Writer
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
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Eric Gill
English Sculptor
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
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Charlie Parker
American Musician
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
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Robert Delaunay
French Artist
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
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Camryn Manheim
American Actress
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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