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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ 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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
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]
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
Αγγλικά a.
διαφωτιστικός, επεξηγηματικός
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
a.
Serving to enlighten.
vb.
(present participle of en enlighten nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
a.
Serving to enlighten.
vb.
(present participle of en enlighten nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
a.
Serving to enlighten.
vb.
(present participle of en enlighten nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
a.
Serving to enlighten.
vb.
(present participle of en enlighten nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm e nlighten ing)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
enlightening
Engelska a.
1 upplysande
2 (avledning en enlighten ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb enlighten)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Enlightening /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/ التنويرFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
enlightening /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]poučný
enlightening /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/ erleuchtend see: enlighten, enlightened, enlightens, enlightenedFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˌɛnˈɫaɪtənɪŋ/, /ɛnˈɫaɪtnɪŋ/
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "enlightening":
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
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]adj.给人启发的