The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interpretative \In*ter"pre*ta*tive\, a. [Cf. F. interpr['e]tatif.]
Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. ``Interpretative lexicography.''
--Johnson.-
According to interpretation; constructive.
An interpretative siding with heresies.
--Hammond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, properly formed from past participle stem of Latin interpretari (see interpret). Interpretive means the same thing, but is less correct. Related: Interpretatively.
Wiktionary
a. Marked by interpretation.
WordNet
adj. that provides interpretation [syn: interpretive]
Usage examples of "interpretative".
This, tied to interpretative software, might even allow us to automate the compilation of historic-figure biographies, at first draft anyhow.
They are interpretative and inductive operations, operations after the fact, consequent upon religious feeling, not coö.