DELUDING Antonyms

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• directly and without evasion; not roundabout

• characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion

• not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; marked by truth

• without dissimulation; frank

• worthy of being depended on

• without pretensions

• not forged

• gained or earned without cheating or stealing

• to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

• a speech act that conveys information

• showing or making known

• the speech act of making something evident

• disclosing unintentionally something concealed

• transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

• so thin as to transmit light

• free of deceit

• easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety)

• expressing or given to expressing the truth

• conforming to truth

• the removal of covering

• the act of discovering something

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• reveal to view as by removing a cover