saying what somebody/something is like; describing something 描寫的；叙述的；說明的 She read out some of the descriptive passages in the novel. 她把小說中一些描寫性段落朗讀出來。 The term I used was meant to be purely descriptive (= not judging). 我所用的措辭是純叙述性的（並非作出判斷）。
Extra ExamplesThe terms are descriptive of strong emotion. 這些詞語用於描述強烈的情感。 a highly descriptive account of her journey through Africa 有關她穿越非洲之旅的生動描述
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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linguistics 語言學 saying how language is actually used, without giving rules for how it should be used 描寫性的（描述語言的實際應用而非使用規則）
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- ‘written down’, from the verb describere ‘write down’ from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.