An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DESCRIPTIVELY
descriptively
(adverb) by giving a description; “these topics need to be treated not just descriptively”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
descriptively (comparative more descriptively, superlative most descriptively)
In a descriptive manner.
Source: Wiktionary
DESCRIPTIVE
De*scrip"tive, a. Etym: [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.]
Definition: Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.
– Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv.
– De*scrip"tive*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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