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descriptive word

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descriptive
adjective
uk /dɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/ us /dɪˈskrɪp.t̬ɪv/
describing something, especially in a detailed, ...
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word
noun
uk /wɜːd/ us /wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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Examples of descriptive word


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Yes, one can understand, and strongly sympathise with, the desire to find a brief and simple descriptiveword without pejorative implications.
This clue can be a synonym, a descriptiveword, or a general category.
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It is a very descriptiveword; it packs a lot of emotion and imagery into three syllables....
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The descriptor category contained both descriptive words and modifiers.
Functions are the elementary pieces of a work, such as a single descriptiveword that can be used to identify a character.
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Admittedly, large numbers of the latter are the names of various diseases, but if we exclude these and look only at the descriptive words and phrases, the discrepancy stands.
It is simply a matter of which descriptive words are used to achieve that end.
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I know that in legal matters these descriptive words are often put in.
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It would be difficult to recreate the full flavour he gave to those very descriptive words.
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It may be part of one occupation to-day and part of another occupation to-morrow, and mere descriptive words will not provide a sufficient means of identification.
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More descriptive words are made by compounding words together with a hyphen (-) separating them.
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There are also numerous descriptive words, such as "bld" (that is, something that has bled, or bloomed, out), "bgincel" (literally little bough), "wstm" (literally on growth), and "tdornes" (literally offspringing).
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