descriptively
adverb
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Pronunciation: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English descriptive Middle English -ly English -ly English descriptively From descriptive + -ly.
- In a descriptive manner.
“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.”