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Adjective: enlightening  en'lIt-ning or en'lI-t(u)n-ing
  1. Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
    "the paintings in the church served an enlightening purpose even for those who could not read";
    - edifying
     
  2. Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
    "an enlightening glimpse of government in action";
    - informative, illuminating
Verb: enlighten  en'lI-t(u)n
  1. Provide knowledge or understanding that improves or uplifts someone
    "She was enlighten by the wise counsel";
    - edify
     
  2. Make clear or more understandable; remove confusion or ambiguity
    "Let me enlighten you about what really happened";
    - clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise [Brit], crystalize [US, rare], straighten out, sort out, illuminate, elucidate
     
  3. Give spiritual insight to; in religion
    "The guru enlightened his disciples";
    - irradiate

Type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate, instruct, learn [archaic], prophesy, teach, vaticinate

Antonym: unenlightening

Encyclopedia: Enlighten