Expositive

3 definitions found

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

  Expositive \Ex*pos"i*tive\, a.
     Serving to explain; expository. --Bp. Pearson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  expositive
       adj : serving to expound or set fourth; "clean expository writing"
             [syn: {expository}]

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

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "expositive":
     allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, commentative, commentatorial,
     critical, delineative, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive,
     descriptive, discoursive, disquisitional, dissertational,
     editorial, elucidative, enlightening, essayistic, euhemeristic,
     exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative,
     explicatory, expositional, expositorial, expository, expressive,
     faithful, glossarial, graphic, illuminating, illuminative,
     illustrative, interpretive, lifelike, monographic, naturalistic,
     rationalistic, rationalizing, realistic, representative,
     scholiastic, true to life, vivid, well-drawn