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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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