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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Illustrative \Il*lus"tra*tive\, adjective
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.
2. Making illustrious. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
illustrative
adjective
1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: {exemplifying}]
2: serving to demonstrate [syn: {demonstrative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "illustrative": allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, figurative, glossarial, graphic, ideographic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrational, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, rationalistic, rationalizing, representational, representative, representing, scholiastic, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid
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