Explanatory

Word EXPLANATORY
Character 11
Hyphenation ex plan a to ry
Pronunciations /ɛkˈsplanət(ə)ɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Explanatory"

What do we mean by explanatory?

Serving or intended to explain. adjective

Serving to explain; containing explanation; of the nature of explanation: as, explanatory notes.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. adjective

Intended to serve as an explanation. adjective

Disposed to explain. adjective

Serving or intended to explain or make clear adjective

Intended to serve as an explanation.

(of a person) Disposed to explain.

Explanatory brigade (russian "пояснительная бригада") is a fictional special operation forces who land to the comment section on signal flare launching and explain you why meme you're looking at is funny. Urban Dictionary

A term that speaks for itself Urban Dictionary

Don't have sex or you'll die Don't drink or you'll die The menstrual cycle is when a female is at her bitchiest STDs are gifts that just keep on giving Pregnancy occurs when a boy and a girl have sex Puberty is just a 6-10 year long nuisance, where boys grow pubes on random parts of their bodies, and where girls "sprout" boobs and get their periods. Menopause is when a woman transforms into something beyond my reach. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Explanatory

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The word "explanatory" in example sentences

The Dominican Congress added what it called explanatory articles to the law by which it approved the convention but made no change therein. ❋ Otto Schoenrich (N/A)

He caught her curious and speculative eyes fixed on his hands, and, being in explanatory mood, he said: — I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

RL is seriously lacking in explanatory mouse-overs. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

Convulsion followed convulsion, till they closed in death, without her being able to utter a word explanatory of the fatal scene. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 69: Bergman dismisses this "so-called 'feminist' literature" as lacking in explanatory power. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The choice of autonomous relations in explanatory models is primarily a matter of adequate knowledge and intuition regarding the basic mechanisms of the economy. ❋ Unknown (1989)

This analysis shows that the main explanatory factors are their systems of economic organisation together with the institutional framework within which they operate. ❋ Unknown (1989)

He caught her curious and speculative eyes fixed on his hands, and, being in explanatory mood, he said: - ❋ Unknown (1908)

She was rattling on without affording me the slightest opportunity to slip in a word explanatory, when her glance chanced to fall upon some one who was approaching us through the throng. ❋ Randall Parrish (1890)

Page 93 character of Mrs. Thompson, as Dickens does upon the characters which he dreams out; but as we detest the repeated interruptions of a story by long dry homilies from the author, we will take it for granted that when we faithfully delineate a character, the reader can draw his lessons of morality from it as well as we can; but as it would be doing great injustice to the character of Mrs. Thompson to rest it with the reader upon an occasional interview with her nearest and dearest friends, we are sure that we will be indulged in a word explanatory of her seeming inconsistency in the conversations just detailed. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Here, then, I find at last an opportunity of noticing in explanatory notes many details of the text which would escape the reader’s observation, and I am confident that they will form a repertory of Eastern knowledge in its esoteric phase. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Instead, Kitcher proposes to begin with the notion of explanatory unification, characterized in terms of constraints on deductive systemizations, where these constraints can be specified in a quite general way that is independent of causal or counterfactual notions, and then show how the causal claims we accept derive from our efforts at unification. ❋ Woodward, James (2009)

More generally, it casts doubt on Kitcher's contention that one can begin with the notion of explanatory unification, understood in a way that does not presuppose causal notions, and use it to derive the content of causal judgments. ❋ Woodward, James (2009)

When it comes to narratives and theories, there is another value dimension that we want to impose on the construction: the idea of explanatory adequacy. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

Evolution is explanatory, which is roughly the same as what we mean by “scientific”, insofar as it cross-correlates data, provides guidance to the investigation of data, and is in some manner “predictive” “post-dictive” can be about as good, though the question of human bias becomes a problem then. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There's actually a category now called explanatory journalism. ❋ Unknown (1989)

In the House, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, Mr. Owen Lovejoy, the Washburns, and all the other radical Republicans vouchsafed no word explanatory of this extraordinary change of position. ❋ James Gillespie Blaine (1861)

[What does] that [mean]? Calling the explanatory brigade! *[fires]* ❋ Hidden_owl (2022)

Dude, [Pwnage] is [pretty much] [self-explanatory] ❋ Your Best Idiot (2010)

[This is] [why health class is so self-explanatory]! ❋ ImAFreshmanBabby (2011)

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