elucidative

== English == === Etymology === From elucidate +‎ -ive. === Adjective === elucidative (comparative more elucidative, superlative most elucidative) Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate. 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.