descriptively

/dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

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adv

"He snapped his fingers descriptively."
"Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear."

Etymology tree English descriptive Middle English -ly English -ly English descriptively From descriptive + -ly.

more descriptively (comparative) most descriptively (superlative)

nondescriptively

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How do you pronounce descriptively?

The recorded pronunciation is /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/.

What does descriptively mean?

In a descriptive manner.

Where does descriptively come from?

Etymology tree English descriptive Middle English -ly English -ly English descriptively From descriptive + -ly.

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