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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

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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How to use enlightened in a sentence?

1. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

   He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.

2. Andrew Auernheimer:

   Weev ? I got ta tell you bro, I don't think that you're very enlightened, i will pray for you tonight.

3. Carl Jung:

   One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

4. Konstanty Gebert:

   We didn't build a Poland of enlightened, free citizens who want to live in a tolerant society.

5. William Howard Taft:

   Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.