Words that rhyme with explanatory

  • admonitory
    adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)] 2: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective [syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving]
  • amatory
    adj 1: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic]
  • combinatory
    adj 1: marked by or relating to or resulting from combination [syn: combinative, combinatory] [ant: noncombinative] 2: relating to or involving combinations [syn: combinative, combinatory, combinatorial] 3: able to or tending to combine [syn: combinable, combinational, combinatory]
  • declamatory
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
  • defamatory
    adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
  • divinatory
    adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] 2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
  • dormitory
    n 1: a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence] 2: a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn: dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room]
  • exclamatory
    adj 1: sudden and strong; "an emphatic no" [syn: emphatic, exclamatory]
  • fumitory
    n 1: delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally [syn: fumitory, fumewort, fumeroot, Fumaria officinalis]
  • inflammatory
    adj 1: characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response" 2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious]
  • insanitary
    adj 1: not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful] [ant: healthful, sanitary]
  • interplanetary
    adj 1: between or among planets; "interplanetary travel"
  • lachrymatory
    adj 1: relating to or prompting tears [syn: lacrimatory, lachrymatory]
  • minatory
    adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
  • monetary
    adj 1: relating to or involving money; "monetary rewards"; "he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services" [syn: monetary, pecuniary]
  • monitory
    adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]
  • planetary
    adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [syn: planetal, planetary] 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" [syn: planetary, terrestrial] 3: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering] 4: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide]
  • premonitory
    adj 1: warning of future misfortune [syn: precursory, premonitory]
  • reformatory
    adj 1: tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: reformative, reformatory] n 1: correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders [syn: reformatory, reform school, training school]
  • sanitary
    adj 1: free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: sanitary, healthful] [ant: insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary]
  • unitary
    adj 1: relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity; "the unitary principles of nationalism"; "a unitary movement in politics" 2: of or pertaining to or involving the use of units; "a unitary method was applied"; "established a unitary distance on which to base subsequent calculations" 3: characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority; "a unitary as opposed to a federal form of government" [ant: federal] 4: having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a), unitary]
  • unsanitary
    adj 1: not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful] [ant: healthful, sanitary]
  • vomitory
    n 1: an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium
  • cometary
    adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a comet [syn: cometary, cometic]
  • punitory
    adj 1: inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages" [syn: punitive, punitory] [ant: rehabilitative]
  • affirmatory
    adj 1: affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes" [syn: affirmative, affirmatory] [ant: negative]
  • criminatory
    adj 1: charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; "incriminatory testimony" [syn: criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory]
  • informatory
    adj 1: providing or conveying information [syn: informative, informatory] [ant: uninformative]
  • self-explanatory
    adj 1: needing no explanation
  • aurae
  • prothonotary
  • protonotary
  • acclamatory
  • sanatory

See also explanatory definition and explanatory synonyms