| Illuminating 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of 2. (a.) Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Thesaurus Entries allegorizing, annotative, autodidactic, brightening, clarifying, coeducational, critical, cultural, demonstrative, demythologizing, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, editorial, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, exhortatory, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, glossarial, homiletic, hortatory, illuminant, illuminative, illumining, illustrative, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, lightening, lighting, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, rationalistic, rationalizing, scholiastic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary |