illuminating
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4.3
- adjective
- /ɪˈluːməˌneɪtɪŋ/
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esclarecedor
- Her lecture on climate change was truly illuminating, making complex concepts easy to grasp.
- particularly illuminating
- provide an illuminating
- mutually illuminating
They gave answers that were so magnificent and so illuminating and so poetic.
- They gave answers that were so magnificent and so illuminating and so poetic.
- So awareness has both this spacious quality and this illuminating or knowing quality.
- And I think, you know, you may find his answer illuminating, at least in the way Trump thinks about it.
Examples
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Thank you for that illuminating explanation.
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But the results, however preliminary or tentative they may be, reveal some illuminating insights.
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And I think, you know, you may find his answer illuminating, at least in the way Trump thinks about it.
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Thank you very much for a very illuminating evening.
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That really was most illuminating.
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But it's the most compelling, illuminating take on this whole thing.
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Well, thank you for that very illuminating view of the war between the sexes.
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That's very interesting, Harold, and I think very illuminating.
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Mrs. Flanagan, we have had a long day, and your testimony has been most illuminating.
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Talking about American culture and discussing women's issues in Indonesia can be mutually illuminating.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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3.5
Full of useful facts or ideas that help you understand something
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4.5
Helps you understand something in a new, clearer way
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4.6
Showing examples or pictures to make an idea clear
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6.8
Helping people learn moral and useful ideas for life
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3.3
That helps people understand something more clearly
Makes something easier to understand
Giving light or making something easier to understand
Antonyms
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
illuminating = illuminate (transparent) = illuminate + ing
A standard adjectival use of the present participle from the verb 'illuminate'; the meaning 'helping to make clear' is directly derived from the verb.
Etymology
The word illuminating comes from Latin parts in- and lumen, where lumen means 'light' and you can see it in the word luminous. So something illuminating 'brings light' to a topic, making it easier to understand.