descriptive

descriptive is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
2. adjective. describing the structure of a language

   "descriptive grammar"

3. adjective. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

   "the descriptive variable"

   "a descriptive passage"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in descriptive:

discerptive

Common word forms

descriptives, descriptively, descriptiveness

Words from these letters

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