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nondescriptive

nondescriptive is the alternative spelling of non-descriptive.

Meaning of non-descriptive

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

Questions about nondescriptive

What is nondescriptive the alternative spelling of?
Nondescriptive is the alternative spelling of non-descriptive.

Words near nondescriptive in the dictionary

  1. nondescribable
  2. nondescript
  3. nondescription
  4. nondescriptional
  5. nondescriptions
  6. nondescriptive
  7. nondescriptively
  8. nondescriptly
  9. nondescriptness
  10. nondescripts
  11. nondesecration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nondescriptive (page history and authors); non-descriptive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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