enlighten
verb
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 verb
make understand
Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
Types & categories
- teach hypernym
Related & opposite
- enlightenment derivation
- sophistication derivation
Sense 2 verb
give spiritual insight to; in religion
Types & categories
- prophesy hypernym
Sense 3 verb
make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Could you clarify these remarks?
Types & categories
- clear up hypernym
Related & opposite
- clearness derivation
- clarification derivation
- elucidation derivation
- lucidity derivation
- clarifying derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | enlightenment |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sophistication |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | teach |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | prophesy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clearness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarification |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | elucidation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lucidity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarifying |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | clear up |