Providing an explanation; helping to explain; explanatory.

(a) Tending to set forth or describe in detail; descriptive. (b) Serving to explain; explanatory, expository. Const. of.

Having the effect of resolving, clarifying, or explaining something. Now rare.

Having the character, quality, or function of interpreting; serving to set forth the meaning (of something); explanatory, expository.

Serving or helping to explain something; containing or providing an explanation. Also with of.

Having the function of explaining; explanatory, interpretative. Also with of. Also: (of a person) explicit, providing explanation.

Having the function of explaining or explicating. Also with of. Cf. explicative, adj.

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, exposition; serving to set forth the meaning (of something); containing an exposition; explanatory. expositor…

That clarifies or makes clear.

Serving or tending to illustrate, make clear or elucidate; explanatory, elucidatory; affording an illustration or example; exemplificatory. Const. of.

figurative. Affording illumination or insight; luminous, illuminating. In 17th cent. common in luciferous experiment, after Bacon's lucifera experi…

shining everywhere or upon everything.

That explains something or makes something clear; explanatory.

Illustrative.

That elucidates, or tends to elucidate. Const. of.

That tends to elucidate, throw light upon, make plain or intelligible.

Of which the property or tendency is to irradiate; illuminative.

of the nature of an exposition; explanatory.

Clarificatory, explanatory. Cf. resolve, v. 17b. Obsolete. rare.

inclined to exposition or setting forth in detail.

Illuminating, luminous.

Tending to, having the purpose of, or relating to, clarification (1b).

Explanatory, informative; labelled ‘FYI’.