be descriptive

Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words

Used to state that something has the quality of describing.

descriptiveVERBS + descriptive

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be

Examples (10)

  • The passage is purely descriptive.
  • The terms are descriptive of strong emotion.
  • His writing style is highly descriptive, painting a vivid picture for the reader.
  • Do you think this advertisement is descriptive enough for the product?
  • The police report was not very descriptive of the suspect's appearance.
  • Your presentation should be more descriptive if you want to engage the audience.
  • The study aims to be descriptive rather than prescriptive, simply observing the phenomena.
  • Her emails are always very descriptive; I know exactly what she's doing.
  • The goal of the first chapter is to be descriptive, setting the scene for the events to follow.
  • If the instructions were more descriptive, we wouldn't have made so many mistakes.