elucidating

comparative more elucidating · superlative most elucidating

1. Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.

   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.

   2015, Wesley Kendall, From Gulag to Guantanamo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration, page 18

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   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, James Scott Wheeler, Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life

   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 ).

   2017, Beth Lau, Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of elucidate