Word Meanings - ELUCIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELUCIDATE)

• Define
• Mark out
• limit
• designate
• specify
• eliminate
• elucidate
• explain
• fix
• settle
• determine
• bound
• Eliminate
• Cast out
• exclude
• eject
• reject
• enucleate
• segregate
• Explain
• Expound
• teach
• illustrate
• clear up
• interpret
• decipher
• Illustrate
• Elucidate
• exemplify
• demonstrate
• represent
• embody
• paint
• image
• make clear
• Interpret
• Translate
• render
• construe
• expound
• expone
• declare
• understand
• solve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ELUCIDATE)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Daub
• caricature
• misportray
• misrepresent
• misdelineate
• misdepict

Related words: (words related to ELUCIDATE)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• EXPONENT
  A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power,
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.