explaining or intended to explain
also ex·plan′a·tive
Origin of explanatory
Late Latin explanatorius
adjective
The definition of explanatory is something that makes things more clear.
An example of explanatory is a science teacher describing to his students how plants need sunlight to grow.
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explanatory
adjective
Serving or intended to explain: an explanatory paragraph.
Related Forms:
- ex·plan′a·to′ri·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more explanatory, superlative most explanatory)
- Intended to serve as an explanation.
- Below the diagram is an explanatory text.
- (of a person) Disposed to explain.
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Sentence Examples
- The incidents of this episode were a favorite subject in the sculptures of his temples, where their representation was accompanied by a poetical version of the affair and other explanatory inscriptions.
- These collections contain introductions and explanatory passages by the author.
- A copy of the orders and an explanatory letter were in fact despatched to the II.
- Friedlein (Leipzig, 1867); German translation of the De Musica, with explanatory notes, by O.
- Their long lists of the occurrences of words and forms fixed with accuracy the present (Masoretic) text, which they had produced, and were invaluable to subsequent lexicographers, while their system of vowel-points and accents not only gives us the pronunciation and manner of reading traditional about the 7th century A.D., but frequently serves also the purpose of an explanatory commentary.
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WORDS NEAR explanatory IN THE DICTIONARY
- explanatory
- explanator
- explanatorily
- explanatoriness