Antonyms for more descriptive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-skrip-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskrɪp tɪv

Definition of more descriptive

Origin : 1751, from Late Latin descriptivus, from descript-, past participle stem of describere (see description). Related: Descriptively; descriptiveness.

adj explanatory

Example sentences :

Indeed, classificatory systems are often more descriptive than our own.
Extract from : « Kinship and Social Organisation » by W. H. R. Rivers

He was a fine young black Newfoundland, whose features were more descriptive of good nature than genius.
Extract from : « The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature » by Various

Do you think "emphatically," is perhaps the more descriptive word now?
Extract from : « Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

We must have a new name,—a more descriptive title for our monstrum horrendum, our roaring Polyphemus.
Extract from : « From School to Battle-field » by Charles King

Check is just the word; though check-mate would be more descriptive and significant!
Extract from : « Satanstoe » by James Fenimore Cooper

The term "long-distance," therefore, is more descriptive than the term "toll."
Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 » by Kempster Miller

In other parts of his work Bach has left fantasies of a more descriptive character.
Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews

Persoon changed Bulliard's specific name in this case to furnish one himself, more descriptive as he thought and distinctive.
Extract from : « The North American Slime-Moulds » by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

The roots, which are tuberous, are of unusual form—soft swollen root-stocks may be more descriptive of them.
Extract from : « Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers » by John Wood

To make that idea definite we need the help of one or more descriptive words such as black, tall, stout, good.
Extract from : « Word Study and English Grammar » by Frederick W. Hamilton

Synonyms for more descriptive

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