Usually means: Explaining or illustrating with details.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. descriptively: Merriam-Webster
  2. descriptively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. descriptively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. descriptively: Vocabulary.com
  5. descriptively: Wordnik
  6. descriptively: Wiktionary
  7. descriptively: Dictionary.com
  8. descriptively: Rhymezone
  9. descriptively: FreeDictionary.org
  10. descriptively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. descriptively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descriptively: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (descriptively)

▸ adverb:  In a descriptive manner.

Similar:
descriptionally, inscriptively, designatively, ascriptively, explanatively, manneristically, disquisitively, delexically, denotationally, expressively, more...

Opposite:
prescriptively, normatively, dogmatically

Phrases:
highly descriptively, more...

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Similar:
descriptionally, inscriptively, designatively, ascriptively, explanatively, manneristically, disquisitively, delexically, denotationally, expressively, more...

Opposite:
prescriptively, normatively, dogmatically

Phrases:
highly descriptively, more...



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