From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
enlightening \enlightening\ adjective
1. enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
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]:
adjective
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
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