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illustrative
[ ih-luhs-truh-tiv, il-uh-strey-tiv ]
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- il·lustra·tive·ly adverb
- nonil·lustra·tive adjective
- nonil·lustra·tive·ly adverb
- over·il·lustra·tive adjective
- over·il·lustra·tive·ly adverb
- self-il·lustra·tive adjective
- unil·lustra·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of illustrative1
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Example Sentences
These pages contain a record of the cost of our excursions abroad that is as illustrative as any culture can produce.
Her frequent digressions are more tedious than illustrative.
Moreover its illustrative examples and its specific recommendations related entirely to the able-bodied.
I take my own case as most handy, but it is as illustrative of my quarrel with the age.
The book is admirable; as a series of sermons illustrative of the canon of literary good taste it is faultless.
Mr. Childs, of Bungay, had many experiences, equally rustic and still more illustrative of the simplicity of the class.
One of the most illustrative of these accounts is the following very amusing anecdote.
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