Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of descriptive is as below...

Gazetteer :: Gazetteer (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Name :: Name (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts..

Diagraphics :: Diagraphics (n.) The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule..

Sailer :: Sailer (n.) A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer..

Idyl :: Idyl (n.) A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like..

Topographical :: Topographical () Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.

Hyetal :: Hyetal (a.) Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions..

Anthropomorphology :: Anthropomorphology (n.) The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings.

Idolographical :: Idolographical (a.) Descriptive of idols.

Descriptive :: Descriptive (a.) 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..

Appellative :: Appellative (n.) An appellation or title; a descriptive name.

Ethnography :: Ethnography (n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology..

Indescriptive :: Indescriptive (a.) Not descriptive.

Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..

Delineatory :: Delineatory (a.) That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc..

Diagraphical :: Diagraphical (a.) Descriptive.

Boat :: Boat (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats..

Random Fonts

Most Popular