Explicative

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Serving to explain; explanatory.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to explicate, or unfold or explain; tending to make clear or intelligible; explanatory. Also explicatory.
  • Word Usage
    "He writes lyrics that will reward the kind of explicative analysis usually accorded to the finest of poets."
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