exemplative

exemplative

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

serving as or providing a typical example

Czech: příkladný (cs), ukázkový