DESCRIPT

PRONUNCIATION: (di-SKRIPT)

MEANING: adjective: Having distinctive features or qualities.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin descriptus, past participle of describere (to describe), from de- (off) + scribere (to write). Earliest documented use: 1665. The opposite, more common affixed form is nondescript.
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DESCRIPT - take away a doctor's license to order medicines

DECRIPT - translate code into plaintext

DISC RIPT - my Frisbee® is torn