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Dictionary definition for: Descriptive
1. (a) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable" "a descriptive passage"
2. (a) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics" "descriptive linguistics"
3. (a) describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
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