Hyphenation of DESCRIPTIVE

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word DESCRIPTIVE? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

DE-SCRIP-TIVE

Definitions of DESCRIPTIVE:

1.	Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description The descriptive variable A descriptive passage
2.	Describing the structure of a language Descriptive grammar

Synonyms of DESCRIPTIVE:

adj	descriptive
adj	synchronic, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic
adj	descriptive

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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