Elucidate
verb
To make clear or understandable, to explain.
The teacher elucidated the complex concept so the students could understand.
Often appears as...
- elucidate the point
- elucidate the concept
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make clear or understandable, to explain.
The teacher elucidated the complex concept so the students could understand.
Often appears as...
- elucidate the point
- elucidate the concept
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Tone
Usually found in formal, educational, or scholarly discourses, not casual conversations.
In her lecture, the professor aimed to elucidate the causes of the economic depression.
Pro Tip 2/3Complex Ideas
Best used when clarifying challenging concepts that might be hard to grasp.
Could you elucidate the theory behind this scientific phenomenon?
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
While a useful word, overusing 'elucidate' might sound pretentious; use sparingly.
Instead of trying to elucidate every point, focus on the most crucial ones.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Tone
Usually found in formal, educational, or scholarly discourses, not casual conversations.
In her lecture, the professor aimed to elucidate the causes of the economic depression.
Pro Tip 2/3Complex Ideas
Best used when clarifying challenging concepts that might be hard to grasp.
Could you elucidate the theory behind this scientific phenomenon?
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
While a useful word, overusing 'elucidate' might sound pretentious; use sparingly.
Instead of trying to elucidate every point, focus on the most crucial ones.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Tone
Usually found in formal, educational, or scholarly discourses, not casual conversations.
In her lecture, the professor aimed to elucidate the causes of the economic depression.
Pro Tip 2/3Complex Ideas
Best used when clarifying challenging concepts that might be hard to grasp.
Could you elucidate the theory behind this scientific phenomenon?
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
While a useful word, overusing 'elucidate' might sound pretentious; use sparingly.
Instead of trying to elucidate every point, focus on the most crucial ones.
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What crows teach us...
Or is this behavior just less rare in orcas than we currently understand it to be? But for a variety of reasons, it's difficult to do the kinds of experimental studies in an animal like an orca, or many of these other large mammals, that might elucidate those kinds of questions.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
return to that with just that background of our species and the planet there are two ways really of thinking about about this and one comes from an understanding of the evolutionary mechanism as elucidated
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Insights into cell...
of DNA was elucidated, a single experiment involving fancy versions of household materials enabled deep insight into the basic architecture of the cell.
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What crows teach us...
Or is this behavior just less rare in orcas than we currently understand it to be? But for a variety of reasons, it's difficult to do the kinds of experimental studies in an animal like an orca, or many of these other large mammals, that might elucidate those kinds of questions.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
return to that with just that background of our species and the planet there are two ways really of thinking about about this and one comes from an understanding of the evolutionary mechanism as elucidated
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Insights into cell...
of DNA was elucidated, a single experiment involving fancy versions of household materials enabled deep insight into the basic architecture of the cell.
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Niels Bohr
Danish Physicist
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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John Edgar Wideman
American Writer
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
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James Madison
American President
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
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Rudolf Hilferding
Austrian Economist
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
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Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
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S.E. Cupp
American Journalist
When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.
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Michael Behe
American Scientist
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French Philosopher
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Niels Bohr
Danish Physicist
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
Quote examples
Karen DeCrow
American Activist
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
Quote examples
John Edgar Wideman
American Writer
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
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James Madison
American President
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Quote examples
Rudolf Hilferding
Austrian Economist
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
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Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
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S.E. Cupp
American Journalist
When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.
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Michael Behe
American Scientist
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French Philosopher
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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