Meaning

Serving to make things clearer; explanatory..

Example Sentences

The teacher's supportive role in saying "We have some pretty nice boys and girls here", and her claritive role in saying "Ann's situation with her baby brother is different from yours, Betty. Isn't your brother older than you are?" were most helpful to the director, working with these youngsters for the first time.

It attempts to avoid handling, except on a claritive or intellectual basis problems of transference.

The proposition that "there are only interpretations of interpretations" leads to an inescapable circularity whereby each interpretation could be perennially begging its own question of what interpretation is really about, not to mention what interpretation is superior to others, contains more value, is more precise, definitive, or claritive, and so on because it lacks a referent or criterion to which to anchor meaning.

Word Forms

• more claritive
• most claritive

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When Should You Use Claritive?

Use claritive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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