Meaning of EXPLANATORY
| Pronunciation: | | ik'splanu`towree
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[adj] serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory notes"; "an explanatory paragraph" |
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EXPLANATORY is a 11 letter word that starts with E. |
| | Synonyms: | | informative, instructive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*plan"a*to*ry\, a. [L. explanatorius.]
Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory
notes. --Swift.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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