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Adjective enlightening has 3 senses
- enlightening, informative, instructive - tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"
Antonyms: unenlightening, uninformative, uninstructive
- edifying, enlightening - 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"
- illuminating, enlightening - highly enlightening; making understandable or clarifying; "an illuminating lecture"; "illuminating pieces of information"
Verb enlighten has 3 senses
- enlighten, edify - make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"
--1 is one way to teach, learn, instruct
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to enlighten Sue
- enlighten, irradiate - give spiritual insight to; in religion
--2 is one way to prophesy, vaticinate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
--3 is one way to clarify, clear up, elucidate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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