illustrational

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English

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Etymology

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From illustration +‎ -al.

Adjective

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illustrational (comparative more illustrational, superlative most illustrational)

  1. Serving to illustrate.
    • 2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.