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illuminative

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of illuminative

serving to explain

  • illuminative descriptions of the sights to be seen from the observatory gave us a much better idea of what we were looking at
Synonyms of illuminative

elucidative, exegetical (also exegetic), explanative, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive
Words Related to illuminative

analytic (or analytical), demonstrative, discursive

exculpatory, exonerative

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