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illuminating

[ih-loo-muh-ney-ting] / ɪˈlu məˌneɪ tɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
lighting up
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Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.

From Los Angeles Times

This may put him on the outs with his colleagues in the academy, but it has made for a riveting and richly illuminating book.

From The Wall Street Journal

His advice is genuinely useful and his research illuminating for anyone trying to be a more creative thinker.

From The Wall Street Journal

We both settle back into our writing, the light of the afternoon illuminating our words.

From Literature

The evaluation I scheduled when I got back home was illuminating.

From The Wall Street Journal