| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.[Websters]
2. Being expository, descriptive, illustrative, interpretative or declaratory. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being elucidative or interpretive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb explicatively.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (explicatively) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective explicative.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
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.]. (references) |
