elucidate
Verb
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
- To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
Adj
- Clear, understandable.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Latin ēlūcidātus, perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to lighten, enlighten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from”) + lūcidus (“bright, clear, understandable”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), literally “to make light of (something)”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”). Compare French élucider.
Synonyms
clarify, clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out, apparent, arrant, bait, blatant, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut, crystal clear, cut and dried, decided, elucidate, evident, explain, explicate, eyely, glaring, intuitive, manifest, notable, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, plain, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as Salisbury, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, straightforward, undissembled, undoubted
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
elucidate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordelucidate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
elucidate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary