descriptively

From descriptive + -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/

descriptively (comparative more descriptively, superlative most descriptively)

1. In a descriptive manner.
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 5:

     He snapped his fingers descriptively.

   • 2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:

     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.

• nondescriptively