elucidative

English

Etymology

From elucidate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

elucidative (comparative more elucidative, superlative most elucidative)

1. Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in Oliver Twist:

     Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.

   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, ch. 4 “The New Downing Street”:

     In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.