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illustrational

illustrational adjective: serving to illustrate.

Adjective

illustrational (comparative more illustrational, superlative most illustrational)

  1. Serving to illustrate.
    • MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of illustrational

comparativemore illustrational
superlativemost illustrational

Origin of illustrational

From illustration + -al.

Questions about illustrational

What does illustrational mean?
Illustrational means serving to illustrate.
What part of speech is illustrational?
Illustrational is an adjective.

Words near illustrational in the dictionary

  1. illustrates
  2. illustrateth
  3. illustrating
  4. illustration
  5. illustration board
  6. illustrational
  7. illustrationist
  8. illustrations
  9. illustrative
  10. illustratively
  11. illustrativeness

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