elucidating

English

Adjective

elucidating (comparative more elucidating, superlative most elucidating)

  1. Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
    • 2015, James Scott Wheeler, Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life:
      He wrote in a letter to his morther and sister that it is "very elucidating” for β€œan anonymous company commander to travel abroad in the higher brackets and observe the machinations which shape his destiny.”
    • 2015, Wesley Kendall, From Gulag to Guantanamo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration, page 18:
      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.
    • 2017, Beth Lau, Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind:
      An earlier example in her research gives an even more elucidating notion of how affects and objects might have similar ontologies: "experiencing an emotion is less like seeing an object such as a chair and more like experiencing color" (" Solving" 29 ).

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Verb

elucidating

  1. present participle and gerund of elucidate