edifying
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read
Related & opposite
- unedifying antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | unedifying |