Adjective : a descriptive passage in an essay. ,descriptive botany. From Dictionary.com.
It is not a bad word, not undescriptive, but it has no explanatory power. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Bad Year] Reference
I mean, she actually makes me think, "Boy, I want that undescriptive mug she forces herself to clean every morning.". From Wordnik.com. [Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings] Reference
The alchemists expressed their conceptions in what seems to us a crude, inconsistent, and very undescriptive language. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
It's also a very undescriptive word if you think about it: one Snarkling's Mahnolo Blahnik is another Snarkling's Birkenstock. From Wordnik.com. [VogueOStick] Reference
The term public option, he said, "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase," and that after all, "who would be against a public park?". From Wordnik.com. [Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Echo GOP Talking Point About Public Option] Reference
The vagueness of the general conceptions of alchemy, and the attribution of ethical qualities to material things by the alchemists, necessarily led to the employment of a language which is inexact, undescriptive, and unsuggestive to modern ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Why this undescriptive phrase should be applied to every well-attended dance, with a supper, has always perplexed us; for, of course, every one really judges it by his or her own personal success and enjoyment, not unfrequently incompatible with that of some one else. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
My wife received voicemail from them, but it was extremely sketchy and undescriptive. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The dog's name was undescriptive of his person, which was obviously the result of a singular series of mesalliances. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
Later the names gradually lost sharpness of outline, and eventually faded into "sundries," thus becoming entirely -- but safely -- undescriptive. From Wordnik.com. [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference
It would probably have helped if my son wasn't crying and therefore drowning out the spoken instructions but seriously, why put up on-screen instructions so undescriptive?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet KDE] Reference
While Jiglu on itself is already absolutely meaningless, painfully undescriptive and just not very catchy as a term, the entire product line is named after it: JigluTags, JigluHood. From Wordnik.com. [TheNextWeb.com] Reference
First I compiled the box score weather numbers, which are typically taken about 150-30 minutes before the game starts (and thus rather undescriptive of actual game conditions, often). From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Analysts] Reference
We may, therefore, with good reason, substitute for the undescriptive title "Gothic" the name "The. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
And those are that a) he’s a misogynist, which means his work is not worth reading; and b) that his prose is masculine, undescriptive, to the point. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun Also Rises on My Preconceptions « Looking for Roots] Reference
Misogynist, undescriptive, not for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun Also Rises on My Preconceptions « Looking for Roots] Reference
When I say child I use an inappropriate and undescriptive term — a term suggesting any picture rather than that of the demure little person in a mourning frock and white chemisette, that might just have fitted a good-sized doll — perched now on a high chair beside a stand, whereon was her toy work-box of white varnished wood, and holding in her hands a shred of a handkerchief, which she was professing to hem, and at which she bored perseveringly with a needle, that in her fingers seemed almost a skewer, pricking herself ever and anon, marking the cambric with a track of minute red dots; occasionally starting when the perverse weapon — swerving from her control — inflicted a deeper stab than usual; but still silent, diligent, absorbed, womanly. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
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