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non-descriptive

non-descriptive adjective: not descriptive; failing to provide a description.

Adjective

non-descriptive (not comparable)

  1. Not descriptive; failing to provide a description.
    • When it comes to expressive (or socio-expressive) meaning – and this is the only kind of non-descriptive meaning that we will take into account here – there is no readily available and reasonably objective criterion which enables us to decide between identity and difference.1995, John Lyons, Linguistic Semantics
    Antonyms:
    descriptive

Antonyms of non-descriptive

Forms of non-descriptive

alternative formnondescriptive

Origin of non-descriptive

From non- + descriptive.

Words formed from non-descriptive

Questions about non-descriptive

What does non-descriptive mean?
Non-descriptive means not descriptive; failing to provide a description.
What part of speech is non-descriptive?
Non-descriptive is an adjective.

Words near non-descriptive in the dictionary

  1. non-dependents
  2. non-depressed
  3. non-derivable
  4. non-derogable
  5. non-descript
  6. non-descriptive
  7. non-descriptively
  8. non-descripts
  9. non-destructive
  10. non-destructive read
  11. non-destructive reads

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