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Intended to serve as an explanation
Providing additional explanation or information
Introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface
Having the character or quality of contriteness
Aiming to justify or excuse oneself or one's actions
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Adjective
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Intended to serve as an explanation
explicative
expository
elucidatory
explicatory
informational
informative
instructive
descriptive
explanative
illustrative
instructional
educative
elucidative
enlightening
expositional
interpretive
expositive
illuminative
revelatory
edifying
interpretative
annotative
demonstrative
expounding
illuminating
prefatory
describing
evaluative
exegetic
exegetical
explaining
advisory
allegorical
clarifying
discursive
disquisitional
guiding
informing
analytical
declarative
diagrammatic
didactic
graphic
helpful
hermeneutic
hermeneutical
revealing
by way of explanation
educational
informatory
indicative
delineative
evincive
emblematic
symbolic
critical
factual
telling
newsy
depictive
identifying
analytic
representative
exemplifying
anecdotic
scholarly
academic
tutorial
scholastic
communicative
sample
typical
commentative
forthcoming
interesting
detailed
elaborate
significant
accompanying
associated
introductory
rewarding
fluorescent
enriching
incandescent
luminescent
illuminated
moralistic
pedagogic
improving
doctrinal
homiletic
covering
preceptive
heuristic
propaedeutic
reflective
denotative
exhibitive
useful
enunciatory
declaratory
cautionary
indicatory
denotive
suggestive
denoting
symptomatic
characteristic
connotative
evocative
more ❯
“It could be best described as a selection of readings accompanied with annotations and
explanatory
notes.”
Adjective
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Providing additional explanation or information
parenthetical
parenthetic
supplementary
additional
related
in brackets
in parentheses
Adjective
▲
Introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface
prefatory
preliminary
introductory
precursory
preparatory
initial
preparative
opening
beginning
prelusive
prior
initiatory
primary
prelim
precursive
antecedent
preludial
prodromal
prelusory
prefatorial
prodromic
proemial
prolegomenal
preambular
preambulatory
exordial
initiative
lead-in
inductive
elementary
basic
first
early
fundamental
rudimentary
original
preceding
elemental
foundational
starting
earliest
foundation
inaugural
maiden
primitive
underlying
basal
incipient
essential
foremost
rudimental
anterior
abecedarian
simplest
meat-and-potatoes
prevenient
previous
precautionary
commencing
pilot
advance
leading
trial
test
substratal
ABCs
plain
simplified
primo
clear
readying
preparing
primal
provisional
simple
meat and potatoes
prolegomenous
premier
raw
embryonic
undeveloped
nascent
inceptive
inchoate
young
pioneer
lead
pioneering
before
prep
old
infant
fledgling
nuts-and-bolts
prior to
brand-new
in advance of
easy
exploratory
uncomplex
simplex
straightforward
facile
uncomplicated
entry-level
duck soup
child's play
forward
vanguard
at the fore
sent ahead
in the forefront
sent on ahead
in the lead
in front
radical
bog-standard
virgin
headmost
germinal
leadoff
prime
primordial
primeval
US
budding
primaeval
UK
aborning
earlier
liminal
pristine
aboriginal
prototype
unprecedented
prototypal
first-time
inchoative
launching
dedicatory
premature
developing
virginal
growing
pure
emergent
new
fresh
emerging
archetypal
dawning
advanced
former
base
native
foregoing
beforehand
originating
precedent
indigenous
impending
embryonal
groundlaying
just beginning
autochthonous
autochthonic
founding
in its infancy
past
formative
underivative
underived
first-hand
trailblazing
seminal
revolutionary
ahead
first-edition
first-gen
first-ever
first-generation
in advance
ahead of time
more ❯
Adjective
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Having the character or quality of contriteness
apologetic
sorry
remorseful
regretful
contrite
repentant
penitent
rueful
ashamed
shamefaced
compunctious
sheepish
attritional
penitential
hangdog
atoning
propitiatory
supplicating
deprecatory
conciliatory
diffident
expiatory
conscience-stricken
self-reproachful
red-faced
full of regret
self-incriminating
in sackcloth and ashes
self-effacing
on one's knees
guilt-ridden
guilty
chastened
sorrowful
mournful
abject
sad
afraid
self-condemnatory
shamed
abashed
humble
mortified
disappointed
self-accusing
bad
repenting
penitentiary
terrible
disturbed
troubled
awful
rotten
unhappy
distressed
embarrassed
humiliated
extremely sorry
very sorry
deeply saddened
humbled
uncomfortable
discomfited
awkward
disgraced
chagrined
self-conscious
blushing
demeaned
flustered
discountenanced
shy
disconcerted
upset
crestfallen
dishonoured
UK
discredited
dishonored
US
with one's tail between one's legs
unsettled
thrown
uneasy
discomposed
nervous
debased
bashful
put out of countenance
shown-up
ill at ease
caught with egg on your face
not know where to put yourself
with egg on one's face
wishing the earth would swallow one up
prudish
meek
stuttering
reserved
restrained
stammering
distraught
muddled
blush to think of
stupid
tarred and feathered
degraded
foolish
whipped
chastised
disdained
insignificant
derided
low
deflated
condemned
belittled
small
disparaged
shunned
crushed
reviled
diminished
shown up
scorned
mocked
inferior
in disgrace
fallen
castigated
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Adjective
▲
Aiming to justify or excuse oneself or one's actions
self-justifying
defensive
excusatory
apologetic
justificatory
rationalising
UK
rationalizing
US
extenuating
vindicating
self-protective
self-rationalizing
self-excusing
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