Synonyms for Illuminating:

• adj.

  •bright (adjective)
  • sparkling,
  • blinding,
  • glowing,
  • glittering,
  • luminescent,
  • radiant,
  • brilliant,
  • flaring,
  • neon,
  • flashing,
  • garish,
  • glistening,
  • luminous,
  • blazing,
  • fluorescent,
  • glaring,
  • glinting,
  • dazzling,
  • fiery,
  • well lit,
  • lucid,
  • vivid,
  • shining,
  • incandescent,
  • shimmering,
  • phosphorescent,
  • lurid,
  • scintillating,
  • bright,
  • beaming,
  • gleaming,
  • lustrous,
  • radiating.
  •descriptive (adjective)
  • Designating,
  • Illuminative,
  • detailed,
  • indicative,
  • expository,
  • particularized,
  • graphic,
  • identifying,
  • revealing,
  • delineative,
  • pictorial,
  • characteristic,
  • picturesque,
  • clear,
  • Characterizing,
  • narrative,
  • eloquent,
  • interpretive,
  • definitive,
  • lifelike,
  • Describing,
  • specific,
  • circumstantial,
  • illustrative,
  • Explicative,
  • extended.
  •edifying (adjective)
  • uplifting,
  • cultural,
  • refining,
  • inspiring,
  • improving.
  •educational (adjective)
  • educative.
  •educative (adjective)
  • scholastic.
  •illuminating (adjective)
  • illuminated.
  •informative (adjective)
  • significant,
  • newsy,
  • gossipy,
  • forthcoming,
  • communicative,
  • chatty,
  • informational,
  • instructional,
  • elucidative,
  • advisory.

• v.

  •blaze (verb)
  • Fulgurate,
  • incandesce.
  •brighten (verb)
  • spiff up,
  • grow sunny,
  • intensify,
  • buff up,
  • burnish,
  • enliven,
  • punch up.
  •brightening (verb)
  • illumining,
  • intensifying,
  • Burnishing,
  • Brightening,
  • lightening.
  •illuminate (verb)
  • give insight,
  • finish.
  •lighting (verb)
  • lighting,
  • flooding,
  • incandescing,
  • firing,
  • spotting,
  • fluorescing.

• Other synonyms:

  •expository
  • explanatory.
  •informative
  • up-to-the-minute,
  • up-to-date,
  • revelatory,
  • meaty.
  •Other relevant words:
  • graining,
  • Tidying,
  • Assorting,
  • crystallising,
  • critical,
  • Decorating,
  • exegetic,
  • Imbuing,
  • coeducational,
  • Authorizing,
  • Adorning,
  • Glossarial,
  • expositive,
  • editorial,
  • Classifying,
  • Emblazoning,
  • Separating,
  • lecturing,
  • passing,
  • Disentangling,
  • Explaining,
  • dying,
  • Embellishing,
  • Alighting,
  • solving,
  • Gracing,
  • sorting,
  • Correcting,
  • straightening,
  • coloring,
  • Educating,
  • topping,
  • Explicatory,
  • netting,
  • Elucidating,
  • Euhemeristic,
  • Humanizing,
  • rationalizing,
  • Gaining,
  • Exculpating,
  • Exonerating,
  • informatory,
  • homiletic,
  • didactic,
  • disciplinary,
  • Acquitting,
  • Scholiastic,
  • Tuitionary,
  • Perching,
  • Explicating,
  • propaedeutic,
  • Preceptive,
  • teaching,
  • autodidactic,
  • crystallizing,
  • Irradiating,
  • Allegorizing,
  • shine on,
  • authorising,
  • realising,
  • preaching,
  • demonstrative,
  • Divulging,
  • Igniting,
  • Classing,
  • painting,
  • Realizing,
  • Disciplining,
  • Illustrating,
  • spotlighting,
  • expounding,
  • reforming,
  • introductory,
  • rationalistic,
  • Annotative,
  • Instructing,
  • clearing,
  • Removing,
  • sacking,
  • demythologizing,
  • Dismounting,
  • illuminant,
  • initiatory,
  • Earning,
  • Construing,
  • hortatory,
  • Discharging,
  • exhortatory.

Paraphrases for Illuminating:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    enlightening, instructive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    illuminated, light-emitting, luminous, inspiring, illustrative, stimulating, interesting, bright, helpful.
  • Proper noun, singular
    illumination.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    illumination, lamp.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Illustrating, demonstrating, Indicating, Outlining, Ascertaining, Testifying, lightening, underlining, clarifying, reflecting, highlighting, Signalling, Attesting, shining, unravelling, targeting, showcasing, Displaying, Expressing, striking, showing, revealing, lighting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    informative, insightful, revealing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    lighting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lighting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    enlightening.

Antonyms for Illuminating:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    useless, uninformative, unusable, unilluminating, unenlightening, unhelpful, impractical, uninstructive.