English edit

Etymology edit

illustration +‎ -al

Adjective edit

illustrational (comparative more illustrational, superlative most illustrational)

  1. Serving to illustrate.
    • 2007 August 17, “Art Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.