elucidative
31explanatory — Synonyms and related words: allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, descriptive, discursive, editorial, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exegetical, exemplificative, explaining,… …
32expositive — Synonyms and related words: allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, commentative, commentatorial, critical, delineative, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, descriptive, discoursive, disquisitional, dissertational, editorial, elucidative,… …
33illuminating — Synonyms and related words: allegorizing, annotative, autodidactic, brightening, clarifying, coeducational, critical, cultural, demonstrative, demythologizing, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, editorial, educating, educational, educative,… …
34illustrative — Synonyms and related words: allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative,… …
35informative — Synonyms and related words: advisory, autodidactic, coeducational, communicative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, enlightening, exhortatory, explanatory, homiletic, hortatory,… …
36rationalistic — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, allegorizing, animist, animistic, annotative, atomistic, clarifying, cosmotheistic, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, eclectic, editorial, elucidative, empirical,… …
37explanatory — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. expository, illustrative, explaining, clarifying, informing, informative, allegorical, interpretive, hermeneutic, exegetical, annotative, instructive, guiding, illuminating, declarative, descriptive, explicative,… …
38expository — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. informative, descriptive, interpretive; see explanatory . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Serving to explain: elucidative, exegetic, explanative, explanatory, explicative, expositive, hermeneutic, hermeneutical,… …
39illustrative — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. exemplifying, explanatory, corroborative, clarifying, specifying, explicatory, interpretive, explicative, illuminative, symbolic, emblematic, representative, sample, imitative, indicative, pictorial, graphic, imagistic …
40exegetic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Serving to explain: elucidative, explanative, explanatory, explicative, expositive, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive. See EXPLAIN …
