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illucidative

illucidative is the alternative form of elucidative.

Meaning of elucidative

Adjective

elucidative (comparative more elucidative, superlative most elucidative)

  1. Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
    • Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in Oliver Twist

Forms of illucidative

comparativemore illucidative
superlativemost illucidative

Questions about illucidative

What is illucidative the alternative form of?
Illucidative is the alternative form of elucidative.

Words near illucidative in the dictionary

  1. illucidated
  2. illucidates
  3. illucidating
  4. illucidation
  5. illucidations
  6. illucidative
  7. illudalane
  8. illudalanes
  9. illudane
  10. illudanes
  11. illude

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illucidative (page history and authors); elucidative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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