elucidating
elucidating adjective: serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening. Also the present participle and gerund of elucidate.
Adjective
elucidating (comparative more elucidating, superlative most elucidating)
- Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
- He wrote in a letter to his morther and sister that it is "very elucidating” for “an anonymous company commander to travel abroad in the higher brackets and observe the machinations which shape his destiny.”2015, James Scott Wheeler, Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life
- Recent social science research would suggest that a complex equation is more elucidating when attempting to analyse the impact of the introduction of religious messaging in prisons.2015, Wesley Kendall, From Gulag to Guantanamo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration, page 18
Also used as
elucidating is also the present participle and gerund of elucidate.
Forms of elucidating
| comparative | more elucidating |
|---|---|
| superlative | most elucidating |
Words formed from elucidating
Questions about elucidating
- What does elucidating mean?
- Elucidating means serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
- What part of speech is elucidating?
- Elucidating is an adjective.
Words near elucidating in the dictionary
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