'enlightening' definitions:
Definition of 'enlightening'
From: WordNet
adjective
Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating]
adjective
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, enlightening] [ant: unedifying, unenlightening]
Definition of 'enlightening'
From: GCIDE
- enlightening \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]
Synonyms of 'enlightening'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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