Meaning of ILLUSTRATIVE
| Pronunciation: | | i'lustrutiv
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- [adj] clarifying by use of examples
- [adj] serving to demonstrate
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| | Synonyms: | | demonstrative, exemplifying, informative, informatory, instructive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Il*lus"tra*tive\, a.
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or
elucidate.
2. Making illustrious. [Obs.]
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| | Related Terms: | | allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, figurative, glossarial, graphic, ideographic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrational, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, rationalistic, rationalizing, representational, representative, representing, scholiastic, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid |
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