Explanatory
[ɪk'splænə,t(ə)rɪ;ek-] or [ɪk'splænətɔri]
Definition
(adj.) serving or intended to explain or make clear; 'explanatory notes'; 'an explanatory paragraph' .
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Illustrative, elucidative, expository, serving to explain.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXPLAIN]
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Examples
- Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The glance she gave was at once explanatory and defiant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Mingott family, said Mr. Letterblair with an explanatory smile and bow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He would analyze his own machinations: elaborately contrive plots, and forthwith indulge in explanatory boasts of their skill. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I took refuge once more in the explanatory phrases with which I had prepared myself to meet the curiosity of strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Snagsby addresses an explanatory cough to Mrs. Snagsby, as who should say, My dear, a customer! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This, with an angry explanatory wave of her right arm. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have called from Dodson and Fogg's,' said Mr. Jackson, in an explanatory tone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Only I shall have to use a whole explanatory sentence instead. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- With these explanatory observations, we will now turn to the excerpts referred to, which are as follows: November 22, 1875. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These two men met eleven days after that rout; Alexander no doubt in the state of explanatory exaltation natural to his type during a mood of change. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was explanatory, but not satisfactory. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is to be done on my responsibility, she added, in an explanatory tone to them, and immediately afterwards left the room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The slight, though of her own causing, and self-explanatory, she was unable to dismiss as unwittingly shown, so sensitive had the situation made her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I say,' repeated Fledgeby, with laborious explanatory politeness, 'I beg your pardon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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