illuminate
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
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make lighter or brighter
This lamp lightens the room a bit
Types & categories
- lighten up hypernym
- floodlight hyponym
- spotlight hyponym
Related & opposite
- light source derivation
- lightness derivation
- luminosity derivation
- illuminance derivation
- light derivation
- light derivation
- illumination derivation
- lighting derivation
- illuminant derivation
Sense 2 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
Sense 3 verb
add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- miniature derivation
- artistic creation domain topic
- paint entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | light source |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lightness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | luminosity |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | illuminance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | light |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | light |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | illumination |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lighting |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | illuminant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | lighten up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | floodlight |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | spotlight |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clearness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elucidation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lucidity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarifying |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clear up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | miniature |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | artistic creation |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | paint |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | ornament |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | miniate |