Dictionary Definition
enlightening adj
1 tending to increase knowledge or dissipate
ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action" [syn:
informative,
instructive] [ant:
unenlightening]
2 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" [syn:
edifying] [ant:
unedifying]
3 highly enlightening; making understandable or
clarifying; "an illuminating lecture"; "illuminating pieces of
information" [syn: illuminating] [ant:
unilluminating]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
enlightening- past participle of enlighten
Synonyms, Antonyms 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