explicative
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Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2017
We reply: Yes! astronomical observation has overtaken theoretical or explicative science.
From The Sun changes its position in space therefore it cannot be regarded as being "in a condition of rest" by Tischner, August
He took his way toward the hotel of M. de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
It presents the peculiarities common to all Azurara's writings—the same fondness for quotations, and the same reliance on astrology as explicative of character.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Azurara, Gomes Eannes de
Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical†; construable. polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic†; consignificative†, synonymous; equivalent &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
