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illustrative

UK/ɪˈlʌs.tɹə.tɪv/US/ɪˈlʌs.tɹə.tɪv/

illustrative adjective: demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.

Adjective

illustrative

  1. Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
    • This latest incident is illustrative of his continued bad behavior.

illustrative meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

illustrative in Urdu

مثالی, تشہیری

illustrative in Bengali

প্রদর্শনমূলক, দৃষ্টান্তমূলক, একটি উদাহরণ দেখানো, প্রদর্শন করা

illustrative in Malayalam

സചിത്രവിവരണം നല്കുന്ന, ചിത്രീകരിച്ചു വ്യക്തമാക്കുന്ന, സോദാഹരണം വിവരിക്കുന്ന

Examples of illustrative in a sentence

  • Brown's longstanding advocacy for the “Richonne” ship is especially illustrative to consider.
  • But from one century to the next, the status of illustrative images has changed.
  • In this respect, the example of rituximab is highly illustrative.

All 15 example sentences with illustrative

Origin of illustrative

From illustrate + -ive.

Words formed from illustrative

Questions about illustrative

What does illustrative mean?
Illustrative means demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
What is illustrative in Urdu?
Illustrative in Urdu is مثالی, تشہیری. See Illustrative meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is illustrative?
Illustrative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce illustrative?
Illustrative is pronounced /ɪˈlʌs.tɹə.tɪv/ (UK).

Words near illustrative in the dictionary

  1. illustration
  2. illustration board
  3. illustrational
  4. illustrationist
  5. illustrations
  6. illustrative
  7. illustratively
  8. illustrativeness
  9. illustrator
  10. illustrators
  11. illustratory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: illustrative (page history and authors); illustrative (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); illustrative (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); illustrative (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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