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Where does “descriptive” come from?

Descriptive comes from Latin dēscriptīvus, meaning characterized by description or depicting.

descriptive (English): Of, relating to, or providing a description; Of...

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or providing a description; Of...

Ancestry of “descriptive”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindescriptivuscontaining a full description
2Latindēscrībere—

Words derived from “descriptive”

  • descriptively
  • descriptivist
  • descriptivism
  • descriptiveness
  • misdescriptive
  • undescriptive
  • antidescriptivism
  • indescriptive
  • autodescriptive
  • metadescriptive
  • misdescriptiveness
  • undescriptively
  • undescriptiveness
  • non-descriptive
Every word from Latin dēscrībere →