| Explanatory (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Thesaurus Entries allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, descriptive, discursive, editorial, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exegetical, exemplificative, explaining, explicative, explicatory, expositional, expositive, expository, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive, rationalistic, rationalizing, revelatory, scholiastic |