Descriptive

[adj] (grammar) describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
[adj] serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
[adj] concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics"

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Synonyms

synchronic

Antonyms

diachronic, historical, normative, prescriptive, undescriptive

Related Terms

constructional, constructive, definitional, delineative, depictive, diagnostic, exegetic, expositive, expressive, faithful, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, graphic, hermeneutic, interpretational, interpretive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexi