descriptive

descriptive
adj.
VERBS
be
ADVERB
highly, very

a highly descriptive account of her journey through Africa

purely

The passage is purely descriptive.

merely, simply
largely, mainly
PREPOSITION
of

The terms are descriptive of strong emotion.

Descriptive is used with these nouns: ↑linguistics, ↑passage, ↑phrase, ↑prose, ↑statistics, ↑term, ↑writing

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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