enlightening

enlightening
Synonyms and related words:
advisory, allegorizing, annotative, autodidactic, brightening, broadening, clarifying, coeducational, communicative, critical, cultural, demonstrative, demythologizing, didactic, disabusing, disciplinary, disenchanting, disillusionary, disillusioning, disillusive, edifying, editorial, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, exhortatory, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, glossarial, homiletic, hortatory, illuminant, illuminating, illuminative, illumining, illustrative, informational, informative, informing, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, lightening, lighting, monitory, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, rationalistic, rationalizing, scholiastic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, undeceiving

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  • enlightening — adj. 1. enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement. Syn: edifying. [WordNet 1.5] 2. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • enlightening — enlightening; un·enlightening; …   English syllables

  • enlightening — index advisory, demonstrative (illustrative), didactic, informative, informatory, interpretive Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • enlightening — adj. 1) thoroughly enlightening 2) enlightening to + inf. (it was enlightening to read the old newspaper accounts of the incident) * * * thoroughly enlightening enlightening to + inf. (it was enlightening to read the old newspaper accounts of the …   Combinatory dictionary

  • enlightening — adjective 1. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance an enlightening glimpse of government in action an illuminating lecture • Syn: ↑informative, ↑illuminating • Ant: ↑unenlightening …   Useful english dictionary

  • enlightening — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Promoting culture: civilizing, cultural, edifying, humanizing, refining. See CULTURE. 2. Serving to educate or inform: edifying, educational, educative, illuminative, informative, instructional, instructive.… …   English dictionary for students

  • enlightening — en light·en·ing || nɪŋ adj. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance en·light·en || ɪn laɪtn v. instruct, provide with intellectual or spiritual understanding …   English contemporary dictionary

  • enlightening — See: enlighten …   English dictionary

  • Liberty Enlightening the World — Statue de la Liberté Monument national de la statue de la Liberté Catégorie III de la CMAP (Monument naturel) …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Liberty Enlightening the World — Statue of Liberty in New York Bay …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

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