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单词 enlightening
释义
Enlightening
vverb.communicationmake understand
Synset:edify enlighten
Examples:
  • Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
Derivationally Related Form:enlightenmentedification
Hypernyms:instruct learn teach
Inherited Hypernyms:enlightenteachinformcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: enlighten, edify)
vverb.communicationgive spiritual insight to; in religion
Synset:enlighten irradiate
Hypernyms:prophesy vaticinate
Inherited Hypernyms:enlightenprophesypredictguessspeculatereasonthink
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.cognitionmake free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Synset:clear clear up crystalise crystalize crystallise crystallize elucidate enlighten illuminate shed light on sort out straighten out
Examples:
  • Could you clarify these remarks?
  • Clear up the question of who is at fault
Derivationally Related Form:elucidativelucidityelucidationillumination
Hypernyms:clarify clear up elucidate
Inherited Hypernyms:clearclarifyexplaininformcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
adjadj.alltending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
Synset:illuminating informative
Examples:
  • an enlightening glimpse of government in action
  • an illuminating lecture
Antonyms:unenlightening
Derivationally Related Form:inform
Inherited Hypernyms:enlightening
adjadj.allenlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
Synset:edifying
Examples:
  • the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read
Antonyms:unedifying
Inherited Hypernyms:edifying
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