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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: | apologetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing remorse, regret |
| Synonyms: | atoning, attritional, compunctious, conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating, sorry, supplicating |
| Antonyms: | defiant, defying |
| Main Entry: | demonstrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressive, communicative |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, candid, effusive, emotional, evincive, expansive, explanatory, expository, frank, gushing, histrionic, illustrative, indicative, loving, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, plain, profuse, symptomatic, tender, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, warmhearted |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, inexpressive, reserved, restrained, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, unemotional |
| Main Entry: | expository |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | critical, disquisitional, elucidative, exegetic, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, hermeneutic, illustrative, informative, interpretive |
| Main Entry: | hermeneutical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interpretive |
| Synonyms: | critical, demonstrative, explanatory, explicative, expository, illustrative, investigative, revealing |
| Main Entry: | informative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | advisory, chatty, communicative, descriptive, edifying, educative, elucidative, enlightening, explanatory, forthcoming, gossipy, illuminating, informational, instructional, instructive, newsy, revealing, revelatory, significant |
| Antonyms: | unilluminating, unimportant, uninformative, useless |
| Main Entry: | instructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | educational, educative, enlightening, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, informational, instructional, useful |
| Main Entry: | parenthetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
| Synonyms: | bracketed, by the way, episodic, explanatory, extraneous, extrinsic, in parenthesis, incidental, inserted, intermediate, interposed, qualifying, related, subordinate |
| Antonyms: | basic, consequential, important |
| Main Entry: | declaratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | declarative |
| Synonyms: | demonstrative, descriptive, enunciatory, explanatory |
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