Enlightening Synonyms and Antonyms

Promoting culture
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. civilizing
  2. cultural
  3. edifying
  4. humanizing
  5. refining
Serving to educate or inform
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. informative
  2. edifying
  3. educational
  4. educative
  5. instructive
  6. illuminative
  7. illuminating
  8. instructional
  9. disillusionary
  10. disillusive
Antonyms:
  1. unenlightening
  2. unedifying
Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. edifying

Words Related to Enlightening

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Enlightening Sentence Examples

  • For Carmen, it was an enlightening experience.

  • My reading was most enlightening.

  • The experience can be liberating as well as enlightening.

  • Many women describe natural childbirth as the most enlightening, powerful, and wonderful experience of their lives.

  • A visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium is not only entertaining and enlightening, it also gives you a chance to learn about the way life on land and life in the sea interact and harmonize with one another.

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