elucidating

The word “elucidating” has 5 syllables: e-lu-ci-dat-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪˈluː.sɪ.deɪ.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for elucidating?

In the thesaurus, “elucidating” has 54 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elucidating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elucidating

  • analyzing
  • annotate
  • annotating
  • breaking down
  • clarify
  • clarifying
  • clear
  • clear up
  • commentating
  • construing
  • deciphering
  • decode
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrate
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • disentangling
  • draw a picture
  • enlighten
  • exemplify
  • explaining
  • explicate
  • explicating
  • expound
  • expounding
  • get across
  • getting across
  • gloss
  • glossing
  • illuminate
  • illuminating
  • illustrate
  • illustrating
  • interpret
  • interpreting
  • make perfectly clear
  • make plain
  • make see daylight
  • prove
  • resolving
  • shed light on
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spell out
  • spelling out
  • throw light on
  • undoing
  • unfold
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling

Antonyms for elucidating

Meanings of elucidating

  • verb
    1. To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.

Example Sentences

  • The professor spent the lecture elucidating the theory of relativity.
  • She did a great job elucidating the main points of the proposal.
  • He is skilled at elucidating difficult legal concepts for clients.
  • The documentary is aimed at elucidating the history of the region.
  • While elucidating the issue, he uncovered new evidence.

On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elucidating, such as: analyzing, annotate, annotating, be vague, befogging, breaking down, clarify.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

naming

  • ID
  • accepting
  • acknowledgment
  • adjudging
  • adjudicating
  • adopting
  • advertising
  • allotment
  • allusion
  • announcing
  • anointing
  • apperception
  • appointing
  • appointment
  • approval
  • arbitrating
  • arranging
  • assigning
  • assignment
  • assimilation
  • attaching
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • badge
  • baptising
  • baptizing
  • bracelet
  • branding
  • bringing up
  • broaching
  • broadcasting
  • calling
  • cataloging
  • certification
  • characterizing
  • cherry-picking
  • chewing over
  • choice
  • choosing
  • christening
  • citation
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • classifying
  • cleping
  • code-naming
  • cogitating
  • comment
  • commissioning
  • concluding
  • consecrating
  • consecration
  • considering
  • constituting
  • contemplating
  • coordinating
  • copying
  • coronation
  • creating
  • credentials
  • crowning
  • culling
  • debating
  • deciding
  • decision
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • delegating
  • delegation
  • deliberating
  • denominating
  • denoting
  • deputation
  • deputing
  • deputizing
  • description
  • designating
  • designation
  • destining
  • detailing
  • determining
  • distinguishing
  • dog tag
  • drafting
  • dropping
  • dubbing
  • electing
  • election
  • elucidating
  • embracing
  • empowering
  • entertaining
  • enthroning
  • entitling
  • espousing
  • establishing
  • establishment
  • excerpting
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • figuring
  • finding
  • fixing
  • footnote
  • handpicking
  • identity bracelet
  • implying
  • inaugurating
  • indicating
  • indication
  • inducting
  • inferring
  • infiltrating
  • insinuating
  • installation
  • installing
  • instancing
  • instating
  • instituting
  • intending
  • interjecting
  • interpolating
  • interposing
  • intimating
  • introducing
  • introduction
  • investing
  • investiture
  • judging
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • letter of introduction
  • letter of recommendation
  • making
  • making known
  • marking
  • meditating
  • mentioning
  • miscalling
  • misnaming
  • mistitling
  • nicknaming
  • nominating
  • nomination
  • note
  • notice
  • noticing
  • notification
  • noting
  • opting
  • option
  • orchestrating
  • ordaining
  • ordination
  • papers
  • passport
  • picking
  • placing
  • pointing out
  • pondering
  • preferring
  • preselecting
  • proclaiming
  • promotion
  • pronouncing
  • proposal
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • questioning
  • quoting
  • rechristening
  • reciting
  • recognition
  • recognizing
  • recommendation
  • refereeing
  • reference
  • referring to
  • relabeling
  • relabelling
  • remark
  • renaming
  • resolving
  • ruling
  • ruminating
  • selecting
  • selection
  • setting
  • settling
  • showing
  • signaling
  • signalling
  • signifying
  • sounding
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • stating
  • stigmatizing
  • studying
  • styling
  • suggesting
  • suggestion
  • surnaming
  • tabbing
  • tag
  • tagging
  • taking
  • taking note of
  • tapping
  • terming
  • testimony
  • throning
  • titling
  • tribute
  • umpiring
  • utterance
  • weighing
  • worming

illuminating

  • accenting
  • accentuating
  • advertising
  • analyzing
  • annotating
  • availing
  • bathing
  • beaconing
  • beaming
  • bearing down on
  • bedazzling
  • beneficial
  • bettering
  • blazing
  • blinding
  • boosting
  • breaking down
  • brightening
  • burning
  • chatty
  • clarifying
  • commentating
  • communicatory
  • comprehensive
  • constructive
  • construing
  • copious
  • dazing
  • dazzling
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • detailed
  • disentangling
  • edifying
  • educating
  • educational
  • educative
  • elevating
  • elucidating
  • elucidative
  • emblazing
  • emphasizing
  • enhaloing
  • enlightening
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • ensouling
  • exalting
  • explaining
  • explanatory
  • explicating
  • expounding
  • featuring
  • firing
  • flaming
  • floodlighting
  • fluorescent
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • full
  • getting across
  • glaring
  • gleaming
  • glistening
  • glittering
  • glorifying
  • glossing
  • glowing
  • gossipy
  • haloing
  • helpful
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • igniting
  • illuminated
  • illuming
  • illumining
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • improving
  • incandescent
  • incinerating
  • informational
  • informative
  • informatory
  • inspiring
  • instructional
  • instructive
  • interpreting
  • irradiating
  • kindling
  • lifting
  • lightening
  • lighting
  • luminescent
  • making much of
  • newsy
  • nurturing
  • overplaying
  • pictorializing
  • picturing
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • practical
  • pressing
  • profitable
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • radiating
  • regenerating
  • renewing
  • resolving
  • serviceable
  • shining
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • spotlighting
  • stressing
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • undoing
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling
  • uplifting
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • visualizing
  • worthwhile

illustrating

  • adducing
  • analyzing
  • annotating
  • breaking down
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • commentating
  • construing
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • detailing
  • disentangling
  • edifying
  • elucidating
  • enlightening
  • enumerating
  • exemplifying
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • expounding
  • getting across
  • glossing
  • illuminating
  • imaging
  • instancing
  • interpreting
  • listing
  • mentioning
  • naming
  • pictorializing
  • picturing
  • quoting
  • resolving
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • undoing
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling
  • visualizing

quoting

  • adducing
  • advertising
  • announcing
  • aping
  • bearing out
  • bringing up
  • broaching
  • broadcasting
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • copycatting
  • copying
  • corroborating
  • declaring
  • denominating
  • designating
  • dittoing
  • documenting
  • dropping
  • echoing
  • elucidating
  • emulating
  • excerpting
  • exemplifying
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • illustrating
  • imitating
  • implying
  • indicating
  • inferring
  • infiltrating
  • insinuating
  • instancing
  • intending
  • interjecting
  • interpolating
  • interposing
  • intimating
  • introducing
  • mentioning
  • mimicking
  • miming
  • mouthing
  • naming
  • noticing
  • noting
  • parroting
  • proclaiming
  • pronouncing
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • reciting
  • reechoing
  • referencing
  • repeating
  • representing
  • signaling
  • signalling
  • signifying
  • sounding
  • sourcing
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • stating
  • substantiating
  • suggesting
  • validating
  • worming

Browse the Thesaurus