saying what somebody/something is like; describing something 描写的；叙述的；说明的 She read out some of the descriptive passages in the novel. 她把小说中一些描写性段落朗读出来。 The term I used was meant to be purely descriptive (= not judging). 我所用的措辞是纯叙述性的（并非作出判断）。
Extra ExamplesThe terms are descriptive of strong emotion. 这些词语用于描述强烈的情感。 a highly descriptive account of her journey through Africa 有关她穿越非洲之旅的生动描述
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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linguistics 语言学 saying how language is actually used, without giving rules for how it should be used 描写性的（描述语言的实际应用而非使用规则）
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from late Latin descriptivus, from descript- ‘written down’, from the verb describere ‘write down’ from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.