- descriptive - serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
Antonym: undescriptive
- synchronic, descriptive - concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"
- descriptive - describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
Antonyms: prescriptive, normative