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elucidatory

elucidatory adjective: serving to elucidate.

Adjective

elucidatory (comparative more elucidatory, superlative most elucidatory)

  1. Serving to elucidate.
    • Numerous compound nouns of category (b) are perfectly valid lexemes, but are not considered dictionary material since their definition (e.g., ‘a door of a cupboard’) is no more elucidatory than the original compound itself (‘cupboard door’).2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...

Forms of elucidatory

comparativemore elucidatory
superlativemost elucidatory

Origin of elucidatory

From elucidate + -ory.

Words formed from elucidatory

Questions about elucidatory

What does elucidatory mean?
Elucidatory means serving to elucidate.
What part of speech is elucidatory?
Elucidatory is an adjective.

Words near elucidatory in the dictionary

  1. elucidative
  2. elucidatively
  3. elucidator
  4. elucidatorily
  5. elucidators
  6. elucidatory
  7. eluct
  8. eluctability
  9. eluctable
  10. eluctableness
  11. eluctation

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