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illustrative

adjective

1 illustrative

Clarifying by use of examples.

synonym: exemplifying.

Roget 518: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.    easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized.    ... show more

Roget 554: represent, representing etc. v., representative; illustrative [Slang]; represented etc. v.; imitative, figurative; iconic.    like ... show more

Roget 82: conformable to rule; regular etc. 136; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle [Fr.], selon les regles [Fr.], well regulated, orderly; symmetric ... show more

2 illustrative

Serving to demonstrate.

synonym: demonstrative.


Moby thesaurus: allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative ... show more.

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