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adjective
Date: 1643
serving, tending, or designed to illustrate <illustrative examples> • illustratively adverb
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Illustrative — Il*lus tra*tive, a. 1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. [1913 Webster] 2. Making illustrious. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
illustrative — I adjective annotative, clarifying, definitive, delineator/, depictive, descriptive, elucidative, evincive, exemplary, explanatory, expository, figurative, general, graphic, illuminative, indicative, inferential, interpretative, narrative,… … Law dictionary
illustrative — (adj.) 1640s, from ILLUSTRATE (Cf. illustrate) + IVE (Cf. ive) … Etymology dictionary
illustrative — [adj] explanatory allegorical, clarifying, comparative, corroborative, delineative, descriptive, diagrammatic, emblematic, exemplifying, explicatory, expository, figurative, graphic, iconographic, illuminative, illustrational, illustratory,… … New thesaurus
illustrative — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ serving as an example or explanation. DERIVATIVES illustratively adverb … English terms dictionary
illustrative — [i lus′trə tiv, il′ə strāt΄iv] adj. [ML(Ec) illustrativus] serving as an illustration or example illustratively adv … English World dictionary
Illustrative — Die Illustrative ist ein Kunstfestival. Im Zentrum der Illustrative steht eine Ausstellung für zeitgenössische Illustration und Grafik, die eine aktuelle Werkschau dieser Disziplinen zeigt. Erweitert wird die Ausstellung durch einen offenen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Illustrative — L Illustrative est un festival d art qui a lieu chaque année à Berlin. Au cœur de l Illustrative se tient une exposition d illustration et de graphisme contemporains qui est pour ces disciplines une vitrine des dernières tendances. Cette… … Wikipédia en Français
illustrative — adj. illustrative of (illustrative of one s views) * * * [ ɪləstreɪtɪv] illustrative of (illustrative of one s views) … Combinatory dictionary
illustrative — il|lus|tra|tive [ˈıləstreıtıv, strət US ıˈlʌstrətıv] adj 1.) helping to explain the meaning of something illustrative of ▪ The case is illustrative of a common pattern. ▪ For illustrative purposes , only a simple example is given here. 2.) having … Dictionary of contemporary English
illustrative — [[t]ɪ̱ləstrətɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ of n If you use something as an illustrative example, or for illustrative purposes, you use it to show that what you are saying is true or to make your meaning clearer. [FORMAL] A second illustrative… … English dictionary
