different between exemplative vs illustrative

English

Adjective

exemplative (comparative more exemplative, superlative most exemplative)

1. Serving as or providing a typical example.
   • 1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page 28,

     The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.

   • 1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 199,

     The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.

   • 2000, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object, US Patent Office,

     Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword.

2. Exemplary.

Usage notes

• Whereas exemplary has positive connotations, exemplative is generally neutral.

Synonyms

• (providing an example): illustrative, demonstrative

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?s.t??.t?v/, /??.l??st?e?.t?v/

Adjective

illustrative

1. Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.

   This latest incident is illustrative of his continued bad behavior.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.lys.t?a.tiv/
• Homophone: illustratives

Adjective

illustrative

1. feminine singular of illustratif

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /il.lus.tra?ti.ve/

Adjective

illustrative

1. feminine plural of illustrativo