'Illustrative' definitions:
Definition of 'illustrative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Clarifying by use of examples [syn: exemplifying, illustrative]
adjective
Serving to demonstrate [syn: demonstrative, illustrative]
Definition of 'Illustrative'
From: GCIDE
- Illustrative \Il*lus"tra*tive\, a.
- 1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Making illustrious. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'illustrative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allegorizing,
- annotative,
- apish,
- clarifying,
- critical,
- delineatory,
- demonstrative,
- demythologizing,
- depictive,
- echoic,
- editorial,
- elucidative,
- embodying,
- enlightening,
- euhemeristic,
- exegetic,
- exemplificative,
- explaining,
- explanatory,
- explicative,
- explicatory,
- expositive,
- expository,
- figurative,
- glossarial,
- graphic,
- ideographic,
- illuminating,
- illuminative,
- illustrational,
- imitative,
- incarnating,
- limning,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- onomatopoeic,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- portraying,
- rationalistic,
- rationalizing,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- scholiastic,
- simulative,
- symbolizing,
- typifying,
- vivid