| Main Entry: |
edifying
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enlightening |
| Synonyms: | cultural, educational, educative, illuminating, illuminative, improving, inspiring, instructional, instructive, refining, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | cultural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational, enlightening |
| Synonyms: | adorning, advancing, artistic, beautifying, beneficial, broadening, civilizing, constructive, corrective, developmental, dignifying, disciplining, edifying, educative, elevating, ennobling, enriching, expanding, glorifying, helpful, humane, humanizing, influential, inspirational, instructive, learned, liberal, liberalizing, nurturing, ornamenting, polishing, promoting, raising, refined, refining, regenerative, socializing, stimulating, uplifting, widening |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | informative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | advisory, chatty, communicative, descriptive, edifying, educative, elucidative, enlightening, explanatory, forthcoming, gossipy, illuminating, informational, instructional, instructive, newsy, revealing, revelatory, significant |
| Antonyms: | unilluminating, unimportant, uninformative, useless |
| Main Entry: | rewarding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, pleasing |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, edifying, fruitful, fulfilling, gainful, gratifying, productive, profitable, remunerative, satisfying, valuable, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | troubling, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | wholesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, decent |
| Synonyms: | all there, beneficial, clean, edifying, ethical, exemplary, fit, good, hale, health-giving, healthful, helpful, honorable, hygienic, in fine feather, in the pink, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice, normal, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, pure, respectable, restorative, right, righteous, safe, salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sound, strengthening, together, virtuous, well, worthy |
| Antonyms: | bad, impure, indecent, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
| Synonyms: | admonitory, didactic, disciplinary, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, sermonic, sermonizing, teaching |
| Main Entry: | civilizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultural |
| Synonyms: | edifying, educational, enlightening, intellectual, refining |
| Main Entry: | educative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | edifying, enlightening, illuminating, illuminative, informative, instructional, instructive, scholastic, useful |