descriptive -
adj. 1 serving or seeking to describe (a
descriptive writer).
2 describing or classifying without expressing feelings or judging (a purely
descriptive account).
3 Linguistics describing a language without comparing, endorsing, or condemning
particular usage, vocabulary, etc.
4 Gram. (of an adjective) describing the noun, rather than its relation, position, etc., e.g. blue as distinct from few.
descriptively adv. descriptiveness n. [LL descriptivus (as DESCRIBE)]
