'Expositive' definitions:
Definition of 'expositive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to expound or set forth; "clean expository writing" [syn: expository, expositive]
Definition of 'Expositive'
From: GCIDE
- Expositive \Ex*pos"i*tive\, a. Serving to explain; expository. --Bp. Pearson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expositive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allegorizing,
- annotative,
- clarifying,
- commentative,
- commentatorial,
- critical,
- delineative,
- demonstrative,
- demythologizing,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- discoursive,
- disquisitional,
- dissertational,
- editorial,
- elucidative,
- enlightening,
- essayistic,
- euhemeristic,
- exegetic,
- exemplificative,
- explaining,
- explanatory,
- explicative,
- explicatory,
- expositional,
- expositorial,
- expository,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- glossarial,
- graphic,
- illuminating,
- illuminative,
- illustrative,
- interpretive,
- lifelike,
- monographic,
- naturalistic,
- rationalistic,
- rationalizing,
- realistic,
- representative,
- scholiastic,
- true to life,
- vivid,
- well-drawn