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claritive

claritive adjective: serving to make things clearer; explanatory.

Adjective

claritive (comparative more claritive, superlative most claritive)

  1. Serving to make things clearer; explanatory.
    • The teacher's supportive role in saying "We have some pretty nice boys and girls here", and her claritive role in saying "Ann's situation with her baby brother is different from yours, Betty. Isn't your brother older than you are?" were most helpful to the director, working with these youngsters...1953, Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, page 250
    • It attempts to avoid handling, except on a claritive or intellectual basis problems of transference.1966, Lahey Clinic Foundation - Volume 15, page 146

Forms of claritive

comparativemore claritive
superlativemost claritive

Questions about claritive

What does claritive mean?
Claritive means serving to make things clearer; explanatory.
What part of speech is claritive?
Claritive is an adjective.

Words near claritive in the dictionary

  1. Clarist
  2. Clarists
  3. clarithromycin
  4. clarities
  5. Claritin
  6. claritive
  7. claritromycin
  8. claritude
  9. claritudes
  10. clarity
  11. clark

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