orientative

Adjective

1. Serving to orient or orientate.
   • An activities coordinator named Suzy Ghosh came by with orientative tidings and registration forms for the afternoon’s outings in Newport, Rhode Island. - 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
   • In our view, this approach to care ethics can be operationalized through an innovative account of two basic orientative principles and their systemic interrelation: autonomy, on the one hand, and the principle of...
2. Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.
   • The orientative case indicates that an entity or event is oriented towards or around the referent. - 2011 July 15, Dibella Wdzenczny, “The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and...