explicatory
Serving to explain
Explicatory means serving to explain or clarify: The professor added explicatory notes to help students understand the difficult passage.
The word is formal and relatively rare, more often replaced by explanatory in everyday usage.
Something explicatory makes meaning clearer through interpretation or elaboration.
Making something easier understood
- illuminatingMaking visible or understandable
- demystifyingExplaining something seemingly complex
- simplifyingMaking less complex
- decipheringInterpreting coded information
interpreting · disambiguating · unraveling · untangling · unpacking · dissecting · expounding · glossing
Serving to explain
- detailedFull of specifics
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
- vividIntensely clear and bright
- expositoryServing to explain
elaborative · expansive · thorough · comprehensive · exhaustive · in-depth · extensive · annotative
Intended to instruct
- pedagogicalRelating to teaching methods
- instructionalIntended to educate
- tutorialInstructional step-by-step guide
- teachingProfession of instructing others
lecturing · professorial · scholarly · academic · curricular · textbook · classroom · seminar
elucidating
Making something easier understood
- illuminatingMaking visible or understandable
- demystifyingExplaining something seemingly complex
- simplifyingMaking less complex
deciphering · interpreting · disambiguating · unraveling · untangling · unpacking · dissecting · expounding · glossing · annotating
illustrative
Serving to explain
expository · elaborative · expansive · thorough · comprehensive · exhaustive · in-depth · extensive · annotative · commentary
didactic
Intended to instruct
- pedagogicalRelating to teaching methods
- instructionalIntended to educate
- tutorialInstructional step-by-step guide
teaching · lecturing · professorial · scholarly · academic · curricular · textbook · classroom · seminar · workshop
explicatoryobscuring
Making less visible
confusing · obfuscating · mystifying · bewildering · perplexing
explain, explanation, explicit, explained, implicit, explains, inexplicable, explainable, unexplained