explicative
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- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɪkətɪv/
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explicativo
- Her explicative notes made the difficult subject much easier to grasp for everyone in the class.
Examples
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Before a judgment can be made on the explicative value of a theory, one must determine the concrete problems this theory claims to explain.
Academic text (2005) -
On the other hand, Figure 3 presents the explicative model developed by the parents of female drug users.
Academic text (2008) -
Having massive libraries of explicative material like modern-day encyclopedias or textbooks is fine.
Blog text (2) -
The conversational tone is divided into four aspects: the dignified, the explicative, the narrative, and the facetious.
Academic text (2007) -
For the conversational, explicative tone, lean forward and bring your face as close to your listeners as possible, since this is the way to prove something conclusively or get someone to act on what you say.
Academic text (2007) -
With the exception of mathematics, some of the sciences, and the arts (including drama, for larger reasons than its artistic use of words), all other academic disciplines rely almost exclusively on speech logic as their explicative medium.
Academic text (2000) -
The comprehensibility or well-formedness of symbolic constructs can be argued in explicative discourses (this would include the ability to engage fellow scholars in dialogue).
Academic text (1992) -
The teacher provided an explicative lecture that helped the students understand the complex topic.
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The report included explicative charts that clarified the data and made the findings more accessible.
Synonyms
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Helps make something clear or easy to understand
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That helps people understand something more clearly
Helping someone understand something clearly
Making something clear and easy to understand
Giving extra detail to make an idea clearer
Antonyms
How Explanatory
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Explicative comes from the Latin explicare 'to unfold', built from ex- 'out' and plicare 'to fold'. So to be explicative is to 'unfold' an idea, making it clear and easy to understand.