Definition for Illuminate:

• To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

Synonyms for Illuminate:

• n.

  •
  • embellish,
  • adorn,
  • enhance,
  • beautify,
  • transform.
  •
  • interpret,
  • explain,
  • define.
  •
  • illustrate,
  • decorate,
  • ornament,
  • glare,
  • trim.
  •
  • teach.
  •illuminate (noun)
  • light,
  • crystalize,
  • crystallize,
  • illume,
  • sort out,
  • enlighten,
  • clear up,
  • straighten out,
  • crystallise,
  • light up,
  • crystalise,
  • shed light on,
  • clear,
  • elucidate,
  • illumine.

• v.

  •brighten (verb)
  • illumine,
  • brighten,
  • intensify,
  • burnish,
  • lighten.
  •interpret (verb)
  • explain.
  •light (verb)
  • fire,
  • glitter,
  • radiate,
  • fluoresce,
  • incandesce,
  • beam,
  • scintillate,
  • spot,
  • light,
  • shine,
  • sparkle,
  • flare,
  • blaze,
  • gleam,
  • glow,
  • flood,
  • flash,
  • glint.
  •make clear; educate (verb)
  • explain,
  • edify,
  • define,
  • construe,
  • give insight,
  • interpret,
  • dramatize,
  • illustrate,
  • instruct,
  • expound,
  • polish,
  • express,
  • clarify,
  • improve,
  • gloss,
  • perfect,
  • uplight,
  • clear up,
  • elucidate,
  • better,
  • finish,
  • shed light on,
  • enlighten.
  •make light (verb)
  • floodlight,
  • irradiate,
  • highlight,
  • light,
  • kindle,
  • spotlight,
  • brighten,
  • illumine,
  • flash,
  • hit with a light,
  • illume,
  • spot,
  • limelight,
  • lighten,
  • fire,
  • light up,
  • ignite.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • enhance,
  • emblazon,
  • garland,
  • embellish,
  • adorn,
  • illustrate,
  • beautify,
  • transfigure,
  • transform,
  • flatter,
  • trick out,
  • cheer up.
  •
  • ornament,
  • festoon,
  • trim,
  • wreathe.
  •
  • overlay.
  •adorn
  • decorate.
  •brighten
  • light up.
  •color
  • fresco,
  • enamel.
  •delineate
  • describe.
  •light up
  • illumine.
  •Other relevant words:
  • foreground,
  • ingrain,
  • spotlight,
  • Dight,
  • luminous,
  • accent,
  • flatter,
  • pollute,
  • clear up,
  • bejewel,
  • authorise,
  • engild,
  • dress,
  • bedizen,
  • get through,
  • demystify,
  • materialize,
  • bedight,
  • discharge,
  • wave,
  • decorate,
  • flag,
  • enunciation,
  • deck,
  • hue,
  • advice,
  • tinct,
  • finish up,
  • calcimine,
  • Luminate,
  • explain,
  • splendid,
  • solve,
  • become clear,
  • focus on,
  • decode,
  • dramatize,
  • consume,
  • bring out,
  • Relume,
  • bring forward,
  • set forth,
  • color,
  • manifest,
  • ribbon,
  • festoon,
  • exculpate,
  • titivate,
  • thinker,
  • shellac,
  • take-in,
  • edifying,
  • meteoric,
  • oracle,
  • day,
  • roll out,
  • glorify,
  • uplift,
  • animation,
  • gild,
  • get off,
  • authorize,
  • breathe,
  • tidy up,
  • display,
  • make plain,
  • flaunt,
  • mastermind,
  • reform,
  • philosopher,
  • bring into view,
  • mandarin,
  • chase,
  • exalt,
  • alight,
  • express,
  • stain,
  • pickle,
  • elation,
  • limelight,
  • materialise,
  • bring forth,
  • emblazon,
  • scholar,
  • trot out,
  • starets,
  • polish,
  • inspire,
  • daub,
  • fresco,
  • whitewash,
  • pictorialize,
  • happiness,
  • get down,
  • dab,
  • construe,
  • cover,
  • spell out,
  • cheer up,
  • clear,
  • guru,
  • bedeck,
  • lighting,
  • make sense of,
  • disguise,
  • underline,
  • tint,
  • intellectual,
  • class,
  • irradiation,
  • nurture,
  • tinge,
  • engrave,
  • straighten out,
  • tincture,
  • produce,
  • interpret,
  • information,
  • sort,
  • emboss,
  • life,
  • remove,
  • twinkle,
  • net,
  • elder statesman,
  • brandish,
  • delight,
  • neaten,
  • make clear,
  • exemplify,
  • fire up,
  • perk up,
  • trim,
  • spangle,
  • sack up,
  • mean,
  • pundit,
  • begild,
  • perform,
  • enliven,
  • flourish,
  • distinguished,
  • communication,
  • point,
  • polish off,
  • gloss,
  • enjoyment,
  • plume,
  • uplight,
  • famous,
  • imbue,
  • elucidation,
  • straighten,
  • unravel,
  • perch,
  • master,
  • mop up,
  • glare,
  • bathe,
  • publicity,
  • jewel,
  • mature,
  • elder,
  • feature,
  • make,
  • token,
  • assoil,
  • floodlight,
  • eminent,
  • japan,
  • unfold,
  • enact,
  • underscore,
  • perfect,
  • teach,
  • great,
  • work,
  • grain,
  • sack,
  • dismount,
  • set fire to,
  • wreathe,
  • figure,
  • trick out,
  • illume,
  • irradiate,
  • spirit,
  • presence,
  • magnificent,
  • unclutter,
  • affect,
  • disclose,
  • parade,
  • disentangle,
  • exhibit,
  • transform,
  • classify,
  • press,
  • show the way,
  • assort,
  • authority,
  • crystallize,
  • shadow,
  • dip,
  • prosperity,
  • joy,
  • better,
  • account for,
  • dramatise,
  • face,
  • sage,
  • stunning,
  • filigree,
  • advertisement,
  • give insight,
  • adorn,
  • enlightening,
  • beautiful,
  • paint,
  • liveliness,
  • incarnate,
  • glorious,
  • vivid,
  • point up,
  • discipline,
  • energy,
  • crystalise,
  • bead,
  • ignite,
  • put right,
  • instruct,
  • shade,
  • informative,
  • smear,
  • highlight,
  • flower,
  • enamel,
  • sunny,
  • dangle,
  • brighten up,
  • tidy,
  • educate,
  • sort out,
  • improve,
  • Flam,
  • diamond,
  • come to be,
  • super,
  • realise,
  • felicity,
  • picture,
  • fall,
  • savant,
  • square away,
  • accentuate,
  • enlighten,
  • rabbi,
  • stress,
  • translate,
  • open view,
  • explain away,
  • punctuate,
  • evidence,
  • rubricate,
  • Learned man,
  • develop,
  • crock,
  • bring in,
  • ornament,
  • spectacular,
  • exonerate,
  • ennoble,
  • enlightened,
  • make conspicuous,
  • crystalize,
  • illumination,
  • finish off,
  • floodlit,
  • flame,
  • doctor,
  • deep-dye,
  • throw light upon,
  • plaster,
  • separate,
  • edification,
  • bedaub,
  • top,
  • realize,
  • transfigure,
  • stipple,
  • liven up,
  • effloresce,
  • mahatma,
  • clarify,
  • hit with a light,
  • make straight,
  • Overshine,
  • illustrate,
  • Euhemerize,
  • pull-in,
  • powder,
  • see the light,
  • intelligent,
  • witness to,
  • disabuse,
  • acquit,
  • existence,
  • feather,
  • expound,
  • pigment,
  • fret,
  • garnish,
  • glaze,
  • bring,
  • finish,
  • cognition,
  • crack,
  • tone,
  • fig out,
  • embroider,
  • data,
  • unhorse,
  • whiten,
  • mentor,
  • kindle,
  • shine on,
  • flounce,
  • Emblaze,
  • enhance,
  • lacquer,
  • varnish,
  • show,
  • unsnarl,
  • dye,
  • undercoat,
  • betray,
  • prime,
  • skylight,
  • array,
  • indicate,
  • emphasize,
  • garland,
  • pleasure,
  • clean up,
  • embellish,
  • Grangerize,
  • brilliant,
  • prank,
  • gem,
  • explicate,
  • coat,
  • embody,
  • dazzle,
  • give light,
  • dizen,
  • switch on,
  • souse,
  • unlock,
  • Relumine,
  • wrap up,
  • decipher,
  • dress up,
  • paraphrase,
  • pass,
  • earn,
  • stew,
  • demythologize,
  • sapient,
  • reveal,
  • divulge,
  • rationalize,
  • popularize,
  • prink,
  • illuminating,
  • sell,
  • elucidate,
  • gain,
  • shed light on,
  • bespangle,
  • represent,
  • demonstrate,
  • betoken,
  • beautify,
  • bright,
  • tinsel,
  • crystallise,
  • lifetime,
  • overlay,
  • Unriddle,
  • knowledge,
  • light up,
  • seer,
  • show how,
  • wash,
  • edify,
  • present,
  • allegorize,
  • define,
  • distemper,
  • besmear,
  • simplify,
  • parget,
  • evince,
  • iron out,
  • beacon,
  • inform,
  • refine,
  • beribbon,
  • describe,
  • complexion,
  • enlightenment,
  • intellect,
  • correct,
  • exposit,
  • draw attention to,
  • give prominence to,
  • intelligence,
  • sharp.

Antonyms for Illuminate:

• v.

  • make clear; educate
    ruin, confuse, worsen, mystify, be vague.
  • make light
    dull, involve, darken, complicate, obscure, put out, cloud, extinguish.
  • Other antonyms:
    dull, discount, de-emphasize, cover, understate, quench, dim, play down, puzzle, extinguish, snuff, minimize, cloud, put out, perplex, shroud, veil, confound, disparage, belittle, obscure, tone, douse.