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| Main Entry: | illuminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make light |
| Synonyms: | brighten, fire, flash, highlight, ignite, illumine, irradiate, kindle, light, lighten, limelight*, spot, spotlight, floodlight, hit with a light, illume, light up |
| Antonyms: | cloud, darken, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, gloss, illustrate, improve, instruct, interpret, perfect, polish, give insight, shed light on, uplight |
| Antonyms: | cloud, complicate, dull, involve, obscure |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, burst out, fulgurate, incandesce |
| Main Entry: | brighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make shine or glow |
| Synonyms: | burnish, clear up, enliven, gleam, illuminate, illumine, intensify, kindle, lighten, polish, buff up, grow sunny, light up, punch up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | darken, deepen, dull, fade |
| Main Entry: | clarify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain, make clear |
| Synonyms: | analyze, clear up, define, delineate, elucidate, formulate, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, resolve, settle, simplify, spell out*, break down, draw a picture, make perfectly clear, make plain, shed light on, straighten out, throw light on |
| Antonyms: | confuse, muddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain; resolve |
| Synonyms: | answer, cipher, clarify, decipher, dissolve, elucidate, illuminate, illustrate, resolve, solve, tidy, unfold, unravel, figure out, make plausible, make reasonable, puzzle out, straighten out |
| Antonyms: | complicate, question |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pigmented; shade |
| Synonyms: | adorn, blacken, bloom, blush, burn, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, dye, embellish, emblazon, enamel, enliven, flush, gild, glaze, gloss, illuminate, imbue, infuse, lacquer, paint, pigment, redden, rouge, stain, stipple, suffuse, tinge, tint, tone, wash, chalk, fresco, pinken, variegate |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Antonyms: | discolor, pale, whiten |
| Main Entry: | decorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify, embellish |
| Synonyms: | adorn, bedeck, brighten, burnish, color, deck, do up*, dress up*, enhance, enrich, festoon, finish, fix up, frill, furbish, garnish, gild, grace, idealize, illuminate, ornament, paint, perfect, prank, renovate, spruce up*, trim, add finishing touches, bedizen, dress out, gussy up, jazz up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, name, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, convey image, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, particularize, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | elucidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in detail |
| Synonyms: | annotate, clarify, clear, clear up, decode, demonstrate, enlighten, exemplify, explicate, expound, get across*, gloss, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, prove, spell out*, unfold, draw a picture, make perfectly clear, make plain, make see daylight, shed light on, throw light on |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distract, mix up, mystify, obscure, be vague, make ambiguous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enlighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain thoroughly; make aware |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advise, apprise, brief, catechize, civilize, convert, counsel, direct, disclose, divulge, edify, educate, elucidate, guide, illuminate, illumine, imitate, improve, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, persuade, preach, reveal, save, school, teach, tell, train, update, uplift, cause to understand, give faith, give the lowdown, give the word, illume, inspirit, let in on, open up, put on to |
| Antonyms: | bewilder, confound, confuse, delude, mislead, obscure, puzzle, be vague |
| Main Entry: | exemplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | serve as an example |
| Synonyms: | body, cite, clarify, clear up, demonstrate, depict, display, elucidate, embody, enlighten, epitomize, evidence, exhibit, illuminate, illustrate, instance, manifest, mirror, personify, quote, represent, show, spell out, symbolize, typify, emblematize |
| Main Entry: | glorify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adore, idolize |
| Synonyms: | adorn, aggrandize, augment, beatify, bless, canonize, deify, dignify, distinguish, elevate, enhance, ennoble, enshrine, erect, exalt, halo*, honor, illuminate, immortalize, magnify, raise, revere, sanctify, venerate, worship, apotheosize, lift up, pay homage to, transfigure, uprear |
| Antonyms: | humiliate, lower, mock, shame |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, elucidate, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across*, get over*, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out*, limelight*, manifest, mark, mirror, personify, picture, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell*, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify, allegorize, bring home, draw a picture, emblematize, make clear, make plain, ostend, point up* |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain by drawing, decorating |
| Synonyms: | adorn, delineate, depict, embellish, illuminate, limn, ornament, paint, picture, portray, represent, sketch |
| Main Entry: | inform |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate knowledge, information |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advise, apprise, betray, blab*, brief, caution, clue, edify, educate, endow, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, forewarn, give away, illuminate, inspire, instruct, invest, leak, level, notify, post, relate, snitch, squeal, tattle, teach, tell, tip, tout, update, warn, wise, endue, give a pointer, give a tip, give two cents, let in on, let know, make conversant with, send word, show the ropes, tell on |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off or reflect light |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzle, blaze, blink, burn, dazzle, deflect, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, glow, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, mirror, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle, emit light, give light, incandesce, luminesce |
| Antonyms: | dull |
| Main Entry: | solve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | answer, resolve |
| Synonyms: | break*, clarify, clear up, construe, crack*, decide, decipher, decode, determine, disentangle, divine, do, elucidate, enlighten, explain, expound, fathom, find out, fix, get, have, hit, illuminate, interpret, iron out*, lick*, make out*, pan out*, puzzle, reason, settle, unfold, unlock, unravel, untangle, work, work out, deal with, figure out, get right, get to the bottom, hit upon, make a dent, put two and two together, think out, unriddle |
| Antonyms: | pose, question, search, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spotlight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | focus attention on |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, feature, highlight, illuminate, limelight*, publicize, draw attention, floodlight, give prominence, point up, put on center stage |
| Antonyms: | turn aside |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glimmer, shine |
| Synonyms: | blink, coruscate, flash, flicker, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illuminate, light, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, wink, light up |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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