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illustrative

/ih-luhs-truh-tiv, il-uh-strey-tiv/US // ɪˈlʌs trə tɪv, ˈɪl əˌstreɪ tɪv //

说明性的,说明性,图示性的,插图

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.explanatory

Examples

  • Maybe it was on your TikTok feed, accompanied by a jaunty, illustrative dance.

  • The exchange is comically hard to follow, but it’s illustrative of the sputtering, slapdash, and conspiracy theory-driven nature of Trumpworld’s flailing attempts to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 election.

  • Comments from respondents about their own experiences of bias and discrimination are also illustrative.

  • We created an illustrative model in which 25% of people socialise half as much as the average, 50% socialise an average amount, and the remaining 25% socialise twice as much as average.

  • The activity levels and contact rates between age groups that we used in the model were simply illustrative.

  • 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.