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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
enlightened
adjective
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}]
noun: 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
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