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 “an 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 ).

Derived terms

• unelucidating

Verb

elucidating

1. present participle and gerund of elucidate