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descriptive
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descriptive adjective characterizing, circumstantial, classificatory, clear, definitional, definitive, delineative, detailed, eloquent, explanatory, explicatory, expository, graphic, identifying, illuminating, illustrative, interpretive, lifelike, narrative, particularized, photographic, pictorial, realistic, representative, revealing, specific, true to life, vivid, well-drawn
Associated concepts: descriptive calls, descriptive term, deecriptive trade name, descriptive trademark, descriptive word
See also: demonstrative, detailed, illustrative, informatory, narrative
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But sometimes there is no descriptive substitute, and a problem closely related to genericity and descriptiveness is presented when many goods and services are effectively identifiable only by their trademarks.
Trademark fair use: Braun(R) versus the bunny by Rollins, Vanessa P. / Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
It was succinct in its descriptiveness yet vast in its summarizing how a nation of strangers in a series of airports and small towns mourned a man few of them knew and coped with a loss they couldn't quite fathom.
Bacon effective in 'Taking Chance' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
There is, moreover, a strange irony connected with Hatton and Williamson's overweening descriptiveness and propensity to cite other writers on the subject: at times they paint important phenomena with surprisingly crude brush strokes for such meticulous, determined, and well-versed scholars.
Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and ... by Hanson, John R., II / Independent Review
 
 
 
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