Enlightened
[ɪn'laɪt(ə)nd] or [ɪn'laɪtnd]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Instructed, informed, educated, intelligent, refined, highly civilized.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENLIGHTEN_and_WISE]
Edited by Gail
Examples
- I did not, of course, know the reason for which we had come to the open, but I was not long in being enlightened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Leave being signified by a gesture, Shirley was presently enlightened on what had happened in her absence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Especially to gentlemen, added May, with a look which enlightened Amy as to one cause of her sudden fall from favor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Kenge, said Allan, appearing enlightened all in a moment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A longing to enlighten her was strong in him; and there were moments when he imagined that all she asked was to be enlightened. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the M?le, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- For it will fail, it will receive only a shallow support from what we call an enlightened public opinion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And comes back enlightened. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was enlightened, however, as to the object of the admission by the magistrate's next words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The earlier, less enlightened manufacturers, unable to take a broad view of their own interests, hated and opposed these schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I rose from the thanksgiving--took a resolve--and lay down, unscared, enlightened--eager but for the daylight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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