Enlightened

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enlightened
       adj 1: highly educated; having extensive information or
              understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing
              instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a
              knowledgeable audience" [syn: {knowing}, {knowledgeable},
               {learned}, {lettered}, {well-educated}, {well-read}]


       2: having knowledge and spiritual insight; [ant: {unenlightened}]
       3: freed from illusion [syn: {disillusioned}]
       4: having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess";
          "an enlightened electorate" [syn: {educated}]
       n : people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some
           field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
           [syn: {initiate}] [ant: {uninitiate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "enlightened":
     ablaze, abreast of, aglow, alight, au courant, aware,
     bathed with light, bespangled, blase, briefed, brightened,
     broad-minded, candlelit, careful, circumspect, civilized,
     considerate, cultivated, disabused, disappointed, discreet,
     discriminating, discriminative, disenchanted, disillusioned,
     educated, firelit, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, in the know,
     informed, instructed, irradiate, irradiated, judgmatic, judicial,
     judicious, knowledgeable, lamplit, lanternlit, liberal, lighted,
     lightened, lit, lit up, literate, luminous, moonlit, open-minded,
     politic, posted, primed, provident, prudent, prudential,
     put straight, rational, reasonable, reflecting, reflective,
     robbed of illusion, schooled, sensible, set right, sophisticated,
     spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit,
     taught, thoughtful, tinseled, trained, uncharmed, undeceived,
     unspelled, up on, up-to-date, versed, well-advised, well-informed,
     well-judged, well-versed