The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illuminative
Illuminative \Il*lu"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. illuminatif.]
Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light;
illustrative. ``Illuminative reading.''
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
illuminative
a. of, capable of, or causing illumination
Usage examples of "illuminative".
There is truth enough in the comparison to make it illuminative, but he would be a rash dialectician who should attempt to draw from it, by way of inference, a philosophy of letters.