Synonyms for illuminative

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ih-loo-muh-ney-tiv, -nuh-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlu məˌneɪ tɪv, -nə tɪv

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Définition of illuminative

adj educational

Example sentences :

An illuminative essay, with selections and portrait of Carpenter.
Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 » by Various

This Government handbook is not only exhaustive but illuminative.
Extract from : « The Empire of the East » by H. B. Montgomery

Silence is so truth-telling, so illuminative, that few have the courage to face it.
Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker

Some experiments conducted by Frer are illuminative as to this.
Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, October, 1908 » by Various

It is the life of love, as the illuminative life is that of wisdom.
Extract from : « Bygone Beliefs » by H. Stanley Redgrove

But his torch is illuminative, not strictly conflagrational, after all.
Extract from : « The Army Mule and Other War Sketches » by Henry A. Castle

And then, in one illuminative moment, his whole point of view is changed.
Extract from : « The Way of Initiation » by Rudolf Steiner

To Carlyle, the fact must be illuminative, or he cast it aside.
Extract from : « The Age of Tennyson » by Hugh Walker

The illuminative force of his similes is quite extraordinary.
Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds

This story will not attempt to be illuminative; it is no more than a record of Murray's dream.
Extract from : « Rolling Stones » by O. Henry

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