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Illustrative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Acting or serving as an illustration.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

adj. Making illustrious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to illustrate.

Tending to make glorious or illustrious; honorific.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. serving to demonstrate

adj. clarifying by use of examples

Word Usage

"MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about, but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas, which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq, the kind of tough-love approach advocated by some of Rumsfeld's political adversaries."

Equivalent

instructive informative informatory

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

descriptive instructive suggestive analogous pertinent