Definition for Edifying:

• Instructive: improving.

Synonyms for Edifying:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • enlightening,
  • edifying.
  •cultural (adjective)
  • developmental,
  • helpful,
  • expanding,
  • inspirational,
  • Disciplining,
  • Regenerative,
  • Liberalizing.
  •didactic (adjective)
  • Sermonic,
  • hortative,
  • Preceptive,
  • teacherly,
  • teacherish,
  • schoolmasterist,
  • teachy,
  • exhortative,
  • donnish.
  •educational (adjective)
  • informative,
  • didactic.
  •enlightening (adjective)
  • illuminating,
  • inspiring,
  • uplifting,
  • improving.
  •homiletic (adjective)
  • homiletic,
  • Disquisitional,
  • doctrinal.
  •illuminative (adjective)
  • most tutorial,
  • more tutorial.
  •rewarding (adjective)
  • more fulfilling,
  • re warding,
  • re-warding,
  • most fulfilling.
  •wholesome (adjective)
  • more health giving,
  • more strengthening,
  • most strengthening,
  • most health-giving,
  • in pink,
  • more health-giving,
  • most health giving,
  • in-nocent,
  • more healthgiving,
  • in nocent,
  • health giving,
  • most healthgiving,
  • healthgiving.

• n.

  •
  • beneficial,
  • healthy,
  • refining,
  • sensible,
  • culture,
  • essential,
  • Humanizing,
  • restorative,
  • good,
  • healing,
  • therapeutic,
  • well-balanced.
  •
  • teach,
  • educational.

• v.

  •teaching (verb)
  • schooling,
  • instilling,
  • drilling,
  • coaching,
  • guiding,
  • Imbuing,
  • Inculcating,
  • Instructing,
  • Indoctrinating,
  • Tutoring,
  • teaching,
  • Educating,
  • training,
  • lecturing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • educative,
  • Civilizing,
  • Illuminative,
  • instructional.
  •
  • instructive.
  •diverting
  • entertaining.

Paraphrases for Edifying:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    enlightening.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inspiring.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    enlightening, shining, building.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    instructive, informative.

Antonyms for Edifying:

• adj.

  • all
    unedifying.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    unenlightening.

Edifying Sentence Examples:

• And then we will pass an edifying hour together, my good fellow; for now I quite believe you are in the right frame of mind.

• Another child of his died when two years and seven months old, and made a most edifying end in prayer and praise.