explanatory

Definitions

Serving to explain or clarify something.

Providing an interpretation or reason for a particular phenomenon or set of facts.

Examples

The professor provided an explanatory note to help students understand the complex theory.

She offered an explanatory gesture to clarify why she had arrived late to the meeting.

Synonyms

descriptive illustrative clarifying expository interpretive informative elucidating

Antonyms

confusing obscure mysterious enigmatic vague ambiguous cryptic