| 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: | enlightening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
broadening, civilizing, cultural, edifying, educative, enriching, humanizing, illuminative, informative, instructional, instructive, learned, refining, scholarly, scholastic, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | acquaint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inform oneself or another about something new |
Synonyms: |
accustom, advise, apprise, bring out, clue, come out with, disclose, divulge, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, fix up, get together*, habituate, inform, intro, introduce, knock down, let know, make familiar, notify, post, present, reveal, tell, warn |
Antonyms: |
conceal, deceive, falsify, hide, hold back, mislead, misrepresent, withhold |
| Main Entry: | apprise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell |
Synonyms: |
advise, brief, enlighten, fill in, inform, notify, tip off |
| Notes: | appraise is 'evaluate, size up' and apprise is 'inform' apprise means 'to inform'; appraise means 'to assess or evaluate' |
| 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: | communicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give or exchange information, ideas |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, advertise, advise, announce, be in touch, betray, break, broadcast, carry, connect, contact, convey, correspond, declare, disclose, discover, disseminate, divulge, enlighten, get across, get through, hint, impart, imply, inform, interact, interface, keep in touch, let on, let out, make known, network*, pass on, phone, proclaim, publicize, publish, raise, reach out, relate, report, reveal, ring up, signify, spread, state, suggest, tell, touch base, transfer, transmit, unfold, write |
Antonyms: |
bottle up, conceal, cover, keep, keep quiet, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | communicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
Synonyms: |
candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
Antonyms: |
close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| 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 |