Dictionary

descriptively en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English descriptive Middle English -ly English -ly English descriptively From descriptive + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a descriptive manner.
   • Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear. 2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:
   • He snapped his fingers descriptively. 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 5:

Forms

Deriveds

nondescriptively

Translations (9)

pt descritivamente (in a descriptive manner) · ca descriptivament (in a descriptive manner) · fi kuvailevasti (in a descriptive manner) · it descrittivamente (in a descriptive manner) · es descriptivamente (in a descriptive manner) · de beschreibend (in a descriptive manner) · pl opisowo (in a descriptive manner) · de deskriptiv (in a descriptive manner) · fi deskriptiivisesti (in a descriptive manner)