illustrational
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of illustrations.
illustrational art.
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used for purposes of illustration; serving to illustrate; illustrative.
Etymology
Origin of illustrational
First recorded in 1880–85; illustration + -al 1
Example Sentences
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A few veer toward illustrational kitsch, and the prevailing symmetry of their forms can begin to feel complacent.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
His paintings, done in a crisply realistic, highly detailed, somewhat cut-and-paste illustrational style, are far from grim.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
Pettibon’s graphic style is no style, a clunky mélange of cartooning and illustrational modes that lack honed skill and nuanced feeling.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017
He once remarked: "An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a nonillustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact."
From Time Magazine Archive
The vision of France, at any rate, so close and so clear at propitious hours, was to grow happily illustrational for us as nothing else in any like relation to us could possibly have become.
From Within the Rim and Other Essays by James, Henry
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