Elucidating
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Elucidating is an adjective meaning Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
Meaning
Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of elucidate
Example Sentences
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.
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.”
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 ).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clear up, clear, enlighten, illuminate, clarify, crystallize.
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