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non-interpretive


adjective

  1. serving to interpret; explanatory.
  2. deduced by interpretation.
  3. made because of interpretation: an interpretive distortion of language.
  4. of or relating to those arts that require an intermediary, as a performer, for realization, as in music or theater.
  5. offering interpretations, explanations, or guidance, as through lectures, brochures, or films: the museum’s interpretive center.

adj.1670s, from interpret + -ive; also see interpretative. Listed by Fowler among the words “that for one reason or another should not have been brought into existence.”

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