illuminative
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məˌneɪ adjective
giving light; illuminating.
Related forms
non·il·lu·mi·na·tive, adjective
un·il·lu·mi·na·tive, adjective
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| illuminate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to throw light in or into; light up: to illuminate a room |
| 2. | (tr) to make easily understood; clarify |
| 3. | to adorn, decorate, or be decorated with lights |
| 4. | (tr) to decorate (a letter, page, etc) by the application of colours, gold, or silver |
| 5. | (intr) to become lighted up |
| —adj | |
| 6. | archaic made clear or bright with light; illuminated |
| —n | |
| 7. | a person who has or claims to have special enlightenment |
| [C16: from Latin illūmināre to light up, from lūmen light] | |
| il'luminative | |
| —adj | |
| il'luminator | |
| —n | |
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Illuminative
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Illuminative evaluation is introduced as a total re-appraisal of the rationale and techniques of program evaluation.
Arbitrators' awards may be illuminative and directive, but they are doubtful as precedents.
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