| Main Entry: | edify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | instruct |
Synonyms: |
educate, enlighten, improve, teach, uplift |
| Main Entry: | edifying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enlightening |
Synonyms: |
cultural, educational, educative, illuminating, illuminative, improving, inspiring, instructional, instructive, refining, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inform of facts |
Synonyms: |
abridge, advise, apprise, edify, enlighten, epitomize, explain, fill in, give rundown, give the lowdown, inform, initiate, instruct, let in on, orient, prepare, prime, recapitulate, show the lay of the land, show the ropes, summarize, tip off, update |
Antonyms: |
hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | civilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make cultured; develop |
Synonyms: |
acculturate, acquaint, advance, better, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, ethicize, foster, help forward, humanize, idealize, improve, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, polish, promote, reclaim, refine, sophisticate, spiritualize, tame, uplift |
| Main Entry: | cultural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational, enlightening |
Synonyms: |
adorning, advancing, artistic, beautifying, beneficial, broadening, civilizing, constructive, corrective, developmental, dignifying, disciplining, edifying, educative, elevating, ennobling, enriching, expanding, glorifying, helpful, humane, humanizing, influential, inspirational, instructive, learned, liberal, liberalizing, nurturing, ornamenting, polishing, promoting, raising, refined, refining, regenerative, socializing, stimulating, uplifting, widening |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | educate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | teach information, experience |
Synonyms: |
brainwash*, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, enlighten, exercise, explain, foster, improve, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, let in on, mature, nurture, put hip, put through the grind, rear, school, show the ropes, train, tutor |
Antonyms: |
learn |
| Main Entry: | enlighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain thoroughly; make aware |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, advise, apprise, brief, catechize, cause to understand, civilize, convert, counsel, direct, disclose, divulge, edify, educate, elucidate, give faith, give the lowdown, give the word, guide, illume, illuminate, illumine, imitate, improve, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, inspirit, instruct, let in on, open up, persuade, preach, put on to, reveal, save, school, teach, tell, train, update, uplift |
Antonyms: |
be vague, bewilder, confound, confuse, delude, mislead, obscure, puzzle |
| Main Entry: | illuminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make clear; educate |
Synonyms: |
better, clarify, clear up, construe, define, dramatize, edify, elucidate, enlighten, explain, expound, express, finish, give insight, gloss, illustrate, improve, instruct, interpret, perfect, polish, shed light on, uplight |
Antonyms: |
cloud, complicate, dull, involve, obscure |
| Main Entry: | inform |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate knowledge, information |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, advise, apprise, betray, blab, brief, caution, clue, edify, educate, endow, endue, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, forewarn, give a pointer, give a tip, give away, give two cents, illuminate, inspire, instruct, invest, leak, let in on, let know, level, make conversant with, notify, post, relate, send word, show the ropes, snitch, squeal, tattle, teach, tell, tell on, tip, tout, update, warn, wise |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide, secret |