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41illustrative — Synonyms and related words: allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative,… …
42lifelike — Synonyms and related words: authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card carrying, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic, honest, honest to God, inartificial,… …
43naturalistic — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, authentic, bona fide, candid, card carrying, characteristic, commonsense, cosmotheistic, delineative, depictive,… …
44rationalistic — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, allegorizing, animist, animistic, annotative, atomistic, clarifying, cosmotheistic, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, eclectic, editorial, elucidative, empirical,… …
45realistic — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, astute, atomistic, authentic, banausic, bona fide, breadwinning, breathing, businesslike, candid, card carrying, characteristic,… …
46representative — Synonyms and related words: MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, acting, advocate, agent, alderman, alter ego, alternate, alternative, ambassador, amicus curiae, analogy, antetype, antitype, apish, archetypal, archetype, assemblyman,… …
47true to life — Synonyms and related words: authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card carrying, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic, honest, honest to God, inartificial,… …
48vivid — Synonyms and related words: active, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alive, all agog, animate, animated, anxious, apish, avid, bedazzling, blinding, brave, breathless, bright, bright and shining, bright hued, brilliant, brisk, burning,… …
49explanatory — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. expository, illustrative, explaining, clarifying, informing, informative, allegorical, interpretive, hermeneutic, exegetical, annotative, instructive, guiding, illuminating, declarative, descriptive, explicative,… …
50expository — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. informative, descriptive, interpretive; see explanatory . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Serving to explain: elucidative, exegetic, explanative, explanatory, explicative, expositive, hermeneutic, hermeneutical,… …
