Nearby Words
enlightening
| Main Entry: |
enlightening
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | broadening, civilizing, cultural, edifying, educative, enriching, humanizing, illuminative, informative, instructional, instructive, learned, refining, scholarly, scholastic, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | communicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
| Antonyms: | close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| 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: | explanatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, expositional, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneutic, illuminative, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretive, justifying, summary, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | confusing, mysterious, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, vague |
| 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: | instructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | educational, educative, enlightening, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, informational, instructional, useful |
| Main Entry: | broadening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultivating |
| Synonyms: | advancing, cultural, developmental, educational, enlightening, enriching, expanding, improving, refining |
| Main Entry: | illuminating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lighting up |
| Synonyms: | enlightening, fluorescent, illuminated, incandescent, luminescent |
| Main Entry: | civilizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultural |
| Synonyms: | edifying, educational, enlightening, intellectual, refining |
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