Synonyms for enlightened
en·light·ened

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1. enlightened

   Synonyms:
   elevated, exalted, grand, great, humane, intellectual, intelligent, noble, refined

   Antonyms:
   animal, base, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, ignorant, imbruted, insensible, lascivious, sensual, sottish, stolid, stupid, swinish, unintellectual, unspiritual, vile

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1. initiate, enlightenedadjective

   people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

   "it is very familiar to the initiate"

   Synonyms:
   pundit, learned person, novice, initiate, savant, beginner, tyro, tiro

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, dark, benighted, uninformed

2. enlightenedadjective

   having knowledge and spiritual insight

   Synonyms:
   educated

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, benighted, uninformed, dark

3. educated, enlightenedadjective

   characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

   "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"

   Synonyms:
   educated

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, benighted, dark, uninformed

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1. enlightenedadjective

   Synonyms:
   instructed, informed, educated, intelligent, refined, highly civilized

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1. List of paraphrases for "enlightened":

   informed, illuminated, illustrated, lit, clarified, open-minded, broad-minded

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1. Thomas Jefferson:

   I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

2. Aleister Crowley:

   Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

3. Rachael Unsworth:

   The more people who can be enlightened and enthused about very different types of futures, the better the chance we stand of being able to bring them about.

4. Satya Nadella:

   I'm a product of two great American things : American technology reaching me where I was growing up so that I could dream the American dream, and then the enlightened immigration policy that let me live that dream, it's in our self interest, quite frankly, to have an immigration policy that allows us to bring the best and the brightest, as well as show our humanity, because that is the soft power of this country.

5. Andrea Bocelli:

   Certainly, we will all have to pitch in, each to his and her best ability, and we will need some wise and enlightened people to guide us, because if we don't, it will be very difficult.