Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By description; so as to delineate or represent.
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- adverb In a
descriptive manner.
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- adverb by giving a description
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I could also use the phrase descriptively, and say, the British national character has deteriorated from the days when candour was the national virtue.
Siris 2008
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My proposal is to name descriptively the phenonemon I want to study.
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My proposal is to name descriptively the phenonemon I want to study.
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Nothing flowery, nothing descriptively beautiful, yet a line like that is what made Bukowski unique and one of the best writers ever, getting at the hidden truth of what was really happening in his head, rather than telling yet another boring story filled with flowery descriptions like most books and stories are.
James Altucher: 6 Things I Learned From Charles Bukowski James Altucher 2011
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Fair Isaac also uses the range descriptively: “A FICO score is a 3-digit number ranging from 300-850 that represents your credit rating,” etc.
Fair and balanced: battle of the credit giants Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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It has become a daily fixture for American consumers—the collection of warnings, disclaimers and legal jargon that comes with most products and services, designed in what typesetters descriptively call "mouse type."
It's Not Your Eyes…the Fine Print Is Getting Really, Really Small Missy Sullivan 2012
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What Romaine Rolland called "the oceanic feeling" descriptively expresses my experience.
Steve McSwain: Perspectives Of A Former Fundamentalist Christian Steve McSwain 2011
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I do think almost all of this part is pithy and descriptively accurate:
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What Romaine Rolland called "the oceanic feeling" descriptively expresses my experience.
Steve McSwain: Perspectives Of A Former Fundamentalist Christian Steve McSwain 2011
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He thinks Yang is basically right descriptively: the locus of power has to be decisions made by companies, many of them intermediaries, about how to structure free speech and control of information.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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