Enlightening

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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