Use of word descried
Are words descried and described interchangeable?
Eg- Detailed results were described in our last study
Detailed results were descried in our last study
Are both sentences correct?
Top answer
No. Have you checked your dictionary? The definitions are not the same.
- No.
- Have you checked your dictionary?
- The definitions are not the same.
- The word 'descry' is rare, and indeed verging on becoming obsolete.
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No.
Have you checked your dictionary? The definitions are not the same.
The word 'descry' is rare, and indeed verging on becoming obsolete.
0sidcAre words descried and described interchangeable?
No, not at all. 'Descry' is a little-used (probably archaic now) word meaning 'see'. It is wrong in your sentence. In fact, most of the examples using 'descried' on the FrazeIt website are actually misprints for 'described'.
0sidcdescried
"descry" (catch sight of) is one of Melville's favorite words — or so it seems to me. It occurs quite a few times in his novel Typee (1846). See below. Nowadays, you don't hear it anymore. Pity.
we heard the distant shouts of the natives, who had just descried us, and to whom our figures, brought in b
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