elucidating
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "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."
- "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 )."
Inflected Forms
more elucidating (comparative)
most elucidating (superlative)