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What is the adjective for describe?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs describe and descrive which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

descriptive
  1. Of or relating to description.
  2. (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
  3. (linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
  4. (philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages.”
      “Mr. Allaire provides a very graphic and descriptive portrayal of the type of smells he experienced on all deployments.”
descriptionist
  1. Descriptivist.
  2. (philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations.”
descriptivist
  1. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
descriptional
  1. Of, pertaining to, or using description.
describable
  1. Capable of being described.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His service in the Senate, while not describable as stellar, has featured some important moments of gravity and responsibility.”
      “There is more acoustic instrumentation on this album, but that's not to say that the songs are any more conventional or, indeed, describable.”
      “The Incarnation implied that God had become man i.e., fully visible and, thus, describable in his human nature.”
descript
  1. Archaic form of described.
descriptionless
  1. Without a description.
described
describing
descrived
  1. simple past tense and past participle of descrive
descriving
  1. present participle of descrive
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