Dictionary Definition
illustrative adj
1 clarifying by use of examples [syn: exemplifying]
2 serving to demonstrate [syn: demonstrative]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
illustrative- Demonstrative,
exemplative, showing
an example or demonstrating.
- This example of bad behavior is illustrative of his continued bad behavior.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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