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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. interpretive: Merriam-Webster
  2. interpretive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. interpretive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. interpretive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. interpretive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Interpretive, interpretive: Wordnik
  7. interpretive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. interpretive: Wiktionary
  9. interpretive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. interpretive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Interpretive, interpretive: Dictionary.com
  12. Interpretive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Interpretive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. interpretive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. interpretive: Rhymezone
  16. Interpretive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. interpretive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. interpretive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. interpretive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. interpretive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. interpretive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. interpretive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interpretive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of interpretative [Marked by interpretation.]

Similar:
instructive, informative, textual, evaluative, exegetical, hermeneutical, conceptual, discursive, exegetic, choreographic, more...

Opposite:
literal, factual, objective, straightforward

Phrases:
interpretive center, interpretive program, interpretive rule, interpretive centre, interpretive language, more...

Adjectives:
more, social, inherently, less, symbolic, irreducibly, routine

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Similar:
instructive, informative, textual, evaluative, exegetical, hermeneutical, conceptual, discursive, exegetic, choreographic, more...

Opposite:
literal, factual, objective, straightforward

Phrases:
interpretive center, interpretive program, interpretive rule, interpretive centre, interpretive language, interpretive semantics, Interpretive dance, interpretive dancing, interpretive dances, more...

Adjectives:
more, social, inherently, less, symbolic, irreducibly, routine

Colors:
    cerulean,     mauve,     chartreuse,     indigo,     vermilion, more...



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