illustrational

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adjective

Serving to illustrate.

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Meanings

adjectiveillustrational (comparative more illustrational, superlative most illustrational)

comparative more illustrational · superlative most illustrational

  1. Serving to illustrate.

    MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.

    2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times

Origin

From illustration + -al.

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APA

illustrational. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illustrational

MLA

“illustrational.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illustrational. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “illustrational,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illustrational.

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