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US
/ˌɛnˈɫaɪtənɪŋ, ɛnˈɫaɪtnɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
an illuminating lecture
an enlightening glimpse of government in action -
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
How To Use enlightening In A Sentence
- And a most enlightening experience it is. Times, Sunday Times
- He curls his lip to add that he found Psystar's cases "unenlightening". Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
- Seeing as we all knew who won it months ago, it was spectacularly unexciting, unenlightening and unentertaining. Times, Sunday Times
- And speaking of science, the story uses a fair amount of real, present-day science which is delineated from the fictional in an enlightening afterward. REVIEW: Twistor by John Cramer
- Intertextuality, collage, declared and covert citations are instrumental and often enlightening in her 'decreations'. The Times Literary Supplement
- To lump all these countries together is unenlightening. Times, Sunday Times
- That's -- that's what I call nationalism, enlightening ... Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000
- All three DVDs contain director's filmographies and biographies, a hazy, mostly unenlightening historical sketch of the pink film, and unremovable, headache-inducing ‘white-on-white’ subtitles.
- However, when it comes to attempting to understand the deep structure of classical proof systems (and in particular, when two derivations that differ in some superficial syntactic way are really different ways to represent the one underlying ˜proof™) it is enlightening to think of classical logic as formed by a basic substructural logic, in which extra structural rules are imposed as additions. Substructural Logics
- It was a truly enlightening experience. The Sun
