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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, expositional, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneutic, illuminative, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretive, justifying, summary, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | confusing, mysterious, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, vague |
| Main Entry: | illustrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, clarifying, comparative, corroborative, delineative, descriptive, diagrammatic, emblematic, exemplifying, explicatory, expository, figurative, graphic, iconographic, illuminative, illustrational, illustratory, imagistic, indicative, interpretive, metaphoric, pictorial, pictoric, representative, revealing, sample, specifying, symbolic, typical |
| Notes: | illustrative means clarifying by use of examples or serving to demonstrate, while illustrious means widely known and esteemed or having or conferring glory |
| Antonyms: | atypical, complicated, confusing, involved |
| Main Entry: | hermeneutic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidative, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicative, expositional, expositive, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneuti |
| Main Entry: | hieroglyphic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graphic |
| Synonyms: | blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, drawn, engraved, etched, iconographic, illustrated, illustrational, illustrative, marked-out, outlined, painted, photographic, pictographic, pictorial, pictoric, pictured, portrayed, representa |
| Main Entry: | interpretative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidative, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicative, expositional, expositive, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illuminative, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretive, justifying, summary, supplementary |
| Main Entry: | interpretive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidative, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicative, expositional, expositive, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illuminative, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, justifying, summary, supplementary |
| Main Entry: | pictographic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graphic |
| Synonyms: | blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, drawn, engraved, etched, hieroglyphic, iconographic, illustrated, illustrational, illustrative, marked-out, outlined, painted, photographic, pictorial, pictoric, pictured, portrayed, representational, seen, sketched, traced, visual |
| Main Entry: | pictorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graphic |
| Synonyms: | blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, drawn, engraved, etched, iconographic, illustrated, illustrational, illustrative, lifelike, marked-out, outlined, painted, photographic, pictographic, pictoric, pictured, picturesque, portrayed, realistic, representational, seen, sketched, traced, visual, vivid |
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