Meaning of explicatory in English:
explicatory
adjective
See explicate
‘Only from reading the explicatory reviews did I find out.’
- ‘Its images tend to generate multiple interpretations - and do so without an accompanying sense of explicatory adequacy or closure.’
- ‘Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, the book is well researched, as is evident in the copious explicatory notes, at the end of the book, for each chapter.’
- ‘How does a museum ‘do’ imperial economics or the impact of English-style laws without drowning the visitor in documents and explicatory text?’
- ‘Prefacing involves an explicatory introduction to a reading of a work.’
Pronunciation
explicatory
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