interpretively
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7.0
- adverb
- /ɪnˈtɜrprɪtɪvli/
- US
- She approached the artwork interpretively, expressing how it resonated with her personal experiences.
Examples
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The number and variety of responses made by John constitute an interpretively useful record.
Academic text (2000) -
Creative interpretation is also at play when students react to music, critique, and interpretively evaluate a peer performance/product.
Academic text (1995) -
Dorothy produced a record of sufficient length and complexity to be interpretively useful.
Academic text (2000) -
Data were then more interpretively analyzed to explore relationships between identified categories and explain the process of optimal challenge in physical education.
Academic text (2006) -
In the discussion that follows, this article shows how the republican theory of fiduciary law furnishes an interpretively compelling alternative to classical liberalism.
Academic text (2017) -
And bloggers are not wielding crayons or dancing interpretively (that you know).
Blog text (1) -
In the present article, we report the outcome of a factor analysis of the seven scales (n = 75 items) presented in Table 1, with our major purpose being to distill a smaller set of interpretively meaningful epistemological perspectives from which a more comprehensive and integrated inventory can be initiated.
Academic text (1994) -
But if presented tastefully and interpretively, as they were in the exhibition at the African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, curated by the museum's director, Robert Koenig, they become much more provocative not only as utilitarian but also as symbolic forms.
Academic text (2002) -
When analyzing the poem, the teacher encouraged her students to think interpretively about the author's choices.
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During the discussion, he asked everyone to share their thoughts interpretively, explaining what the story meant to them.
Synonyms
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7.6
In a way that helps people understand
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9.9
In a way that tries to find and explain a text's meaning, like a poem or religious book
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7.7
In a way that explains what something means
How Interpretive
Surface Forms
Morphology
interpretively = interpretive (transparent) = interpret + ive + ly
Formed regularly from the adjective 'interpretive' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', meaning 'in an interpretive manner'.
Etymology
Interpretively comes from interpret, which means 'to explain' or 'to translate', and the ending -ly turns it into an adverb that describes how something is done. Think of an interpreter, who explains meaning between people, so to act interpretively is to give a personal explanation or view of something.