What these notes do These Explanatory Notes relate to the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 (c. 29) which received Royal Assent on 30 December 2020. These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Cabinet Office in order to assist the reader of the Act.
Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! The meaning of EXPLICATIVE is serving to explicate; specifically : serving to explain logically what is contained in the subject. How to use explicative in a sentence.
borrowed from New Latin explicātīvus, from Latin explicātus, past participle of explicāre "to free from folds or creases, unroll, spread out, set out in words" + -īvus -ive — more at explicate