expository

What it means

1. Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.

   Practicing expository writing will teach you to explain complex concepts clearly.

   2 more examples

   The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

   2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club

   The expository, nonmetaphorical lyrics to “Cop Killer” were dedicated to the Los Angeles Police Department: The narrator puts on black gloves and a ski mask, turns off the headlights of his car, and prepares to shoot himself some cops.

   2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: expositorial

In a sentence

Practicing expository writing will teach you to explain complex concepts clearly.

Where it comes from

From exposit(ion) + -ory.