Usually means: Clarifying or explaining; making clear.
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  1. explicatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. explicatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. explicatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. explicatory: Wordnik
  5. explicatory: Wiktionary
  6. Explicatory, explicatory: Dictionary.com
  7. Explicatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. explicatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Explicatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. explicatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. explicatory: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Explicatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. explicatory: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.

Similar:
explicative, explanative, explanatory, explanary, expository, exegetic, exemplificatory, epidictic, specificative, specificatory, more...

Opposite:
uninformative, inexplicit, vague, ambiguous, unclear

Types:
expository, descriptive, explanatory, illustrative, more...

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Similar:
explicative, explanative, explanatory, explanary, expository, exegetic, exemplificatory, epidictic, specificative, specificatory, more...

Opposite:
uninformative, inexplicit, vague, ambiguous, unclear

Types:
expository, descriptive, explanatory, illustrative, more...



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