Explanatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Explanatory \Ex*plan"a*to*ry\, a. [L. explanatorius.]
     Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory
     notes. --Swift. Explat

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  explanatory
       adj : serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory
             notes"; "an explanatory paragraph"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "explanatory":
     allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, critical, demonstrative,
     demythologizing, descriptive, discursive, editorial, elucidative,
     enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exegetical, exemplificative,
     explaining, explicative, explicatory, expositional, expositive,
     expository, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative,
     interpretative, interpretive, rationalistic, rationalizing,
     revelatory, scholiastic