About The Word Enlightening

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Enlightening

Enlightening Meaning & Definition
Enlightening Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Enlightening?

[adj] highly enlightening; making understandable or clarifying; "an illuminating lecture"; "illuminating pieces of information"
[adj] enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
[adj] tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Enlightening: edifying | illuminating | informative | instructive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Enlightening: 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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