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Topic: LINGUISTICS

descriptive

 adjective
     
de‧scrip‧tive
1 giving a description of something:
the descriptive passages in the novel
2SL technical describing how the words of a language are actually used, rather than saying how they ought to be used [≠ prescriptive]
—descriptively adverb
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