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illuminating 音标拼音: [ɪl'umən ,etɪŋ] 彩饰 彩饰 illuminating adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; " an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; " an illuminating lecture" [ synonym: { enlightening}, { informative}, { illuminating}] [ ant: { unenlightening}, { unilluminating}] Illuminate \ Il* lu" mi* nate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Illuminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Illuminating}.] [ L. illuminatus, p. p. of illuminare; pref. il- in luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See { Luminous}, and cf. { Illume}, { Illumine}, { Enlimn}, { Limn}.] 1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty. [ 1913 Webster]
Illuminating \ Il* lu" mi* na` ting\, a. Giving or producing light; used for illumination. [ 1913 Webster] { Illuminating gas}. See { Gas}, n., 2 ( a) . [ 1913 Webster] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for " illuminating": allegorizing, annotative, autodidactic, brightening, clarifying, coeducational, critical, cultural, demonstrative, demythologizing, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, editorial, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, exhortatory, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, glossarial, homiletic, hortatory, illuminant, illuminative, illumining, illustrative, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, lightening, lighting, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, rationalistic, rationalizing, scholiastic, self- teaching, teaching, tuitionary
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