Descriptive language is vivid and specific, and helps someone imagine a scene he didn't witness. You probably hope that your friend who works at the morgue isn't too descriptive when you ask him how his day was.
Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description;
Adjective
describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
Adjective
serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
Adjective
concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"
a.
Tending to describe; having the quality of
representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a
descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the
age.
Descriptive
Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description;
Usage Examples
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.