Explanatory means meant to make something clear. An explanatory note, explanatory leaflet, purely explanatory.
It describes the purpose of a piece of writing rather than its success. The phrase explanatory note is so fixed that it appears at the foot of most official forms.
1adjectiveexplanatoryMeant to make something clear.
“An explanatory note at the foot of the form covers the exceptions.”
explanatory is a quality.
Latin explanatorius comes from explanare, to flatten out or make plain, from planus, flat.
Latin
explānātōrius
English, today
explanatory
Built from
From Latin explānātōrius, from Latin explānāt-, past-participle stem of explānāre (“to explain”). ġereclīċ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA