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expository

/ɛkˈspɒzɪtəɹi/US/ɛkˈspɑzəˌtɔɹi/

expository adjective: serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.

Adjective

expository (comparative more expository, superlative most expository)

  1. Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
    • Practicing expository writing will teach you to explain complex concepts clearly.
    • The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club
    Synonyms:
    expositorial

expository meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

expository in Urdu

تفسیری, توضیحی

expository in Malayalam

descriptive, explanatory, describing
വിശദീകരണപരമായ, വിശദീകരിക്കുന്ന, വിവരണപരമായ, പ്രവാചക, വിവരണാത്മകമായ, വാർത്തിക

Synonyms of expository

Forms of expository

comparativemore expository
superlativemost expository

Origin of expository

From exposit(ion) + -ory.

Words formed from expository

Phrases with expository

Questions about expository

What does expository mean?
Expository means serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
What is expository in Urdu?
Expository in Urdu is تفسیری, توضیحی. See Expository meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is expository?
Expository is an adjective.
How do you pronounce expository?
Expository is pronounced /ɛkˈspɑzəˌtɔɹi/ (US).

Words near expository in the dictionary

  1. expositorial
  2. expositorially
  3. expositorily
  4. expositoriness
  5. expositors
  6. expository
  7. expository lump
  8. expository lumps
  9. Expositos
  10. expositour
  11. expositours

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expository (page history and authors); expository (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expository (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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