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Adjective: enlightening en'lItuning- Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
"an enlightening glimpse of government in action" - informative, illuminating - Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
- edifying Verb: enlighten en'lIt(u)n- Make understand
"Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" - edify - Give spiritual insight to; in religion
- irradiate - Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise [Brit], crystalize, crystalise [Brit], straighten out, sort out, illuminate, elucidate
See also: enlightenment Type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate, instruct, learn, prophesy, teach, vaticinate Antonym: unenlightening |