enlightening

enlightening
enlightening enlightening adj. 1. enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.

Syn: edifying. [WordNet 1.5]

2. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action. [WordNet 1.5]


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