ENLIGHTENED Synonyms

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• mentally quick and resourceful

• showing inventiveness and skill

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• provided with artificial light

• having much knowledge or education

• having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

• possessing sound knowledge

• exercising or showing good judgment

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• alert and fully informed

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• get the meaning of something

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold

• introduce light into

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

• inform (somebody) of something

• make aware of

• gain in value

• increase the value of

• introduce light into

• impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to

• give character or essence to

• act as an informer

• inform (somebody) of something

• readily apparent to the mind

• allowing light to pass through

• accurately stated or described

• free from clouds or mist or haze

• the state of being free of suspicion

• a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water

• entirely

• in an easily perceptible manner

• free from confusion or doubt

• affording free passage or view

• free from contact or proximity or connection

• characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)

• (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims

• (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law

• clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible

• free of restrictions or qualifications

• free from flaw or blemish or impurity

• clear of charges or deductions

• easily deciphered

• freed from any question of guilt

• characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving

• rid of obstructions

• make a way or path by removing objects

• become clear

• grant authorization or clearance for

• remove

• go unchallenged; be approved

• be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts

• go away or disappear

• pass by, over, or under without making contact

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment

• clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.

• yield as a net profit

• make as a net profit

• earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

• sell to get rid of

• pass an inspection or receive authorization

• pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

• settle, as of a debt

• make clear, bright, light, or translucent

• rid of instructions or data

• remove (people) from a building

• remove the occupants of

• free (the throat) by making a rasping sound

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form

• assume crystalline form; become crystallized

• cause to take on a definite and clear shape