self-descriptive
adjective
uk/ˌself.dɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/us/ˌself.dɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/Self-descriptive words,statements, etc. are use fordescribingyourself:
Positive andnegativeadjectivesratedas self-descriptive werecounted.
Employees areadvisedto usecommonsensewhenpostingself-descriptivestatementsonsocialnetworkingwebsites.
- Thirty self-descriptivequestionswere used toseparatethepopulationinto nine differentsegments.
- At thisparticularstageofdevelopment,childrensignificantlyincreasetheirproductionof self-descriptiveutterances.
- You'llfindself-descriptivecommentsin social-mediasitesthat may give you aninsightthat a court-orderedquestionnairewon't.
Defining & explaining
- account (tosomeone) forsomething
- accountability
- adumbration
- annotation
- annotator
- crystallize
- demystify
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- lay
- misdescribe
- miswrite
- nail
- nailsomeonedown
- non-defining
- non-descriptive
- outline
- rough
- trace