Illustrative

3 definitions found

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

  Illustrative \Il*lus"tra*tive\, a.
     1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or
        elucidate.
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     2. Making illustrious. [Obs.]


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  illustrative
       adj 1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: {exemplifying}]
       2: serving to demonstrate [syn: {demonstrative}]

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

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "illustrative":
     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