The Collaborative International Dictionary
Descriptive \De*scrip"tive\, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.
Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats
of the graphic solution of problems involving three
dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes.
--Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv.
-- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a descriptive manner.
WordNet
adv. by giving a description; "these topics need to be treated not just descriptively"
Usage examples of "descriptively".
On the way they were given an example of night-crawler activity and so descriptively warned of other dangers of Botany that they were thoroughly cowed by the time they arrived.
Ease him gently' - his thick fingers rippled descriptively - "into the discipline so that when' - and he clapped his hands together - "we suddenly discover that this five- .
Ease him gently' his thick fingers rippled descriptively "into the discipline so that when' and he clapped his hands together "we suddenly discover that this five .
The alimentary canal stretches some 30 feet from cheek to cheek, as you descriptively put it.