as in graphical
having many features or details
He told a descriptive story about his trip to Spain that captured our attention. An overly descriptive account of the movie that left little to the imagination.
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Recent Examples of descriptive
Within the entertainment industry even our job titles are non-descriptive hand-me-downs from a bygone era and more often than not are negotiation points and not unilaterally indicative of any one role.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Kim measures loudness via a descriptive scale, shifting the seemingly objective audiogram from an individualizing register into a personal one.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
So, our deliverables are prescriptive as well as descriptive informing brands on how to make new ads better.
—Charles Taylor, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Again, cisgender and cis are not slurs, and the misinformation around the terms is likely due to the broadly anti-trans conservative campaign against basic descriptive language for those outside the majority.
—Quispe López, Them, 18 Mar. 2025
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Kim measures loudness via a descriptive scale, shifting the seemingly objective audiogram from an individualizing register into a personal one.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
So, our deliverables are prescriptive as well as descriptive informing brands on how to make new ads better.
—Charles Taylor, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Again, cisgender and cis are not slurs, and the misinformation around the terms is likely due to the broadly anti-trans conservative campaign against basic descriptive language for those outside the majority.
—Quispe López, Them, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descriptive
Adjective
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This story contains graphic details that may be disturbing to some readers.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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On the weekends, however, feel free have a little more fun with the look and put on your favorite band T-shirt or graphic tee.—
Antonio Fuentes,
Glamour,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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An incredibly realistic short almond nail set that may just have your friends fooled.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
14 Apr. 2025
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One path leads to more realistic pricing that reflects the true cost and value of these advanced systems.—
Andrew Filev,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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More vivid economic statistics to aid government intervention in the economy.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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New Hampshire Public Radio & The Pudding Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour The New York Times meticulously reconstructs the deadly wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, using 400 resident and tourist videos placed meticulously on a photorealistic 3-D map, offering a vivid account of the tragedy.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The next steps include speeding up the AI's processing, making the output voice more expressive and exploring ways to incorporate tone, pitch and loudness variations into the synthesized speech.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Your proposal doesn’t have to be on a hot air balloon in Paris or a picturesque beach in the Maldives—unless your person has explicitly expressed that preference and that fits your budget.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Vogue,
20 Apr. 2025
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Flowers, notes, candles, and other items were placed neatly in two rows down a sidewalk among the oak trees and Spanish moss, a defining beauty mark on FSU's picturesque campus.—
Kati Weis,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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To be clear, this was a photographic corona; no one saw it with their own eyes.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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During the team’s 2021 photographic effort to document all the inscriptions and graffiti on the walls of the Cenacle, the technique revealed writing and drawings whose colors had faded beyond recognition.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Prices were accurate at the time of publication but may change.—
Emily DeLetter,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Retailers often struggle with data silos, inconsistent quality, and integration issues, Sheridan says, which complicate accurate analysis in addition to concerns around consumer privacy.—
Kiri Masters,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Molds belong to the kingdom of Fungi and is a specific form of fungi that grow filament structures known as hyphae.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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From there, Groff and his costars will walk us through Darin's story, taking us into specific scenes then zipping through time to another significant point.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Descriptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descriptive. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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