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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | elucidative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | annotative, clarifying, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicative, explicatory, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive |
| Main Entry: | exegetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | annotative, clarifying, elucidative, exegetical, explanative, explicative, explicatory, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive |
| Main Entry: | explanative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | annotative, clarifying, elucidative, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, explicatory, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive |
| Main Entry: | explicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | annotative, clarifying, elucidative, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicatory, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive |
| Main Entry: | expositive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | annotative, clarifying, descriptive, elucidative, exegetic, exegetical, explanative, explicative, explicatory, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive |
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