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.
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
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.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for descriptive
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
See All Example Sentences for descriptive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for descriptive
Adjective
-
Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Apr. 2025
-
Part of this surge is just practical, said Elizabeth Goodspeed, a graphic designer and writer.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
-
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
-
An incredibly realistic short almond nail set that may just have your friends fooled.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
-
More vivid economic statistics to aid government intervention in the economy.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
-
The process brought up a lot of traumatic memories, including a particularly vivid one of seeing an eviction notice on the front door of my family’s apartment.—
Rahkim Sabree, Contributor,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
Adjective
-
To be clear, this was a photographic corona; no one saw it with their own eyes.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2025
-
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
-
Prices were accurate at the time of publication but may change.—
Emily DeLetter,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
-
These speculations proved accurate when, on the second night of WrestleMania 41, Lynch was revealed as the mystery partner of Women's Intercontinental Champion Lyra Valkyria in a tag team title match against the then-champions, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
-
The models are also trained to follow instructions more literally, which requires careful and specific prompting but allows for greater control over the output.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
-
The specific exhaustion of being a mother By Olga Khazan Subscribe to Listen1.0x 0:009:47 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Descriptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descriptive. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share