adj.1 serving or seeking to describe (a descriptive writer).
2 describing or classifying without expressing feelings or judging (a purely descriptive account).
3 Linguistics describing a language without comparing, endorsing, or condemning particular usage, vocabulary, etc.
4 Gram. (of an adjective) describing the noun, rather than its relation, position, etc., e.g. blue as distinct from few.
Derivatives:
descriptively adv. descriptiveness n.
Etymology: LL descriptivus (as DESCRIBE)