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EXPLICATIVE

Definition: EXPLICATIVE

EXPLICATIVE

Adjective

1. Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXPLICATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Explicative \Ex"pli*ca*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression explicatif.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: EXPLICATIVE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Adjective: explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical; construable.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EXPLICATIVE

English words defined with "EXPLICATIVE": Explicatory. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EXPLICATIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Esquisse des paysages pédologiques du Loiret : échelle 1/250000 : notice explicative (reference)

  • La carte écologique de Saint-André-Avellin : notice explicative (reference)

  • Mapa geológico de Costa Rica: folleto explicativo = carte géologique du Costa Rica: nitice explicative (reference)

  • Mesures gravimétriques dans le Tanezrouft oriental, Algérie : notice explicative de la carte gravimétrique du Tanezrouft oriental (reference)

  • On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EXPLICATIVE

Language Translations for "EXPLICATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shpjegues (covering, declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicatory, exponent, expository, interpretative, parenthetic, parenthetical). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حلل منطقيا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обяснителен (apologetic, apologetical, covering, declaratory, explainable, explanatory, explicatory, exponent, expositive, expository, interpretative). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vysvìtlující (explanatory, explicatory, qualifying). (various references)

   

French

  

explicatif (explanatory, explicatory). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

magyarázó (explanatory, exponent, interpreter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

esplicativo (explanatory, expositive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

explicativeay

   

Portuguese

  

esclarecimento (clarification, elucidation, enlightenment, explanatorily, illumination, illustration, irrational, light, showing). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

объяснительный (declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicatory, exponent, expositive, expository, interpretative). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

eksplikativan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

explicativo (elucidating, explanatory, explicatory). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förklarande (declarative, declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicatory, expositive, expository, interpretative). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, nude, obvious, orotund, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, robust, trenchant), пояснювальний (declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicatory, exponent, expositive, expository, illustrative, interpretative). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

để giảng (explanatory, explicatory), để giải thích (explicatory, expositive, expository), để giải nghĩa (explicatory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EXPLICATIVE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXPLICATIVE": explicatively. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EXPLICATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: explicatives. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EXPLICATIVE"

Words rhyming with "EXPLICATIVE" (pronounced 'Ex"pli*ca*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXPLICATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-t-v-x"

-2 letters: explicate, tailpiece.

-3 letters: epitaxic, explicit.

-4 letters: aplitic, calipee, capelet, captive, ciliate, elative, exciple, exclave, expiate, pelitic, pileate, plicate.

-5 letters: active, apiece, aplite, atelic, caplet, cleave, clivia, elicit, epical, except, excite, exilic, expect, italic, lexica, pelite, pelvic, placet, plaice, plicae, velate, viatic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-t-v-x"
 

+2 letters: explicatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXPLICATIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 50 4C 49 43 41 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .--.    .-..    ..    -.-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#80 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 004C 0049 0043 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3958504643373554435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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