Synonyms for illuminate
ɪˈlu məˌneɪt

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate(verb)

   make lighter or brighter

   "This lamp lightens the room a bit"

   Synonyms:
   brighten, fire up, enlighten, get down, crystalize, clear up, ignite, shed light on, illumine, dismount, perch, sort out, clear, get off, elucidate, alight, crystallise, light up, straighten out, fall, light, crystallize, unhorse, crystalise, illume

2. clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate(verb)

   make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

   "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"

   Synonyms:
   discharge, earn, take in, classify, elucidate, illumine, unsnarl, pull in, wrap up, enlighten, sack, authorize, assoil, irradiate, shed light on, finish up, crystalise, see the light, light up, light, crystalize, make, polish off, crystallise, sort, tidy, gain, illume, mop up, clarify, correct, realise, finish off, edify, solve, exculpate, assort, unclutter, class, put right, pass, neaten, square away, effloresce, clean up, discipline, acquit, brighten, reform, authorise, separate, crystallize, clear up, bring in, exonerate, straighten out, sack up, top, clear, sort out, tidy up, realize, iron out, disentangle, get through, straighten, net

3. illuminate(verb)

   add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

   Synonyms:
   crystallise, clear up, shed light on, sort out, crystalise, light up, crystalize, enlighten, illumine, light, straighten out, elucidate, crystallize, illume, clear

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. illuminate(verb)

   Synonyms:
   illumine

2. illuminate(verb)

   to shine light on something

   Synonyms:
   illumine

3. illuminate(verb)

   to decorate something with lights

   Synonyms:
   illumine

4. illuminate(verb)

   to clarify or make something understandable

   Synonyms:
   illumine

5. illuminate(verb)

   to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs

   Synonyms:
   illumine

6. illuminate(verb)

   To make spectacular

   Synonyms:
   illumine

7. illuminate(verb)

   to glow

   Synonyms:
   illumine

8. illuminate(verb)

   to be exposed to light

   Synonyms:
   illumine

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. illuminate

   Synonyms:
   lighten, enlighten, emblazon, irradiate

   Antonyms:
   darken, obscure, bedim

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. illuminate(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   enlighten, illumine, illume, supply with light

2. illuminate(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   adorn with lights (as a building), light up

3. illuminate(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   adorn with colored letters

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   enlighten, inform, brighten

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How to use illuminate in a sentence?

1. Alfredo Barnechea:

   I'm going to pray to God...to illuminate the Archbishop of Arequipa so he doesn't use the pulpit for political commentary.

2. Jennifer Palmieri:

   It did illuminate for the American people that we think this is a Republican Party that is really out of touch from where most Americans are, and shows that they don't have a lot of solutions for the problems that trouble people's lives, and it is important for people to know that and that is a win.

3. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   It always gets the darkest, right before the first ray of Sun penetrates the darkness to illuminate our world. Never give up, and never lose Hope. The message embedded in the word HOPE is, in fact, 'Hold On, Pain Ends.

4. Jack Kim:

   In this year of the seventh party congress, the military and the people accomplished the great success in the first hydrogen bomb test and the launch of an earth observation satellite, Kwangmyongsong-4, to brilliantly illuminate the prowess of Juche Joson, unprecedented results have been accomplished.

5. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   You are the ultimate luxury. There is a great altar of love in me, you are so beautiful that you want to worship and kiss your feet, bow and bow before your divine beauty, there are powerful vibrations of love emanating from my soul, these are powerful signals of a deep obsession with love. The fire of my infinite love for you will illuminate and burn this world and hundreds of billions of worlds around me, my love is deeper than the universe itself, my whole inner world is dedicated only to you alone, all my thinking is crazy and dreams of you, everything says in me that I need only you are one among all worlds and universes. It seems to me that my penis will explode with horny, the heart will not sustain a huge amount of love, and the mind will go crazy. Thoughts about you are a cute sweet erotic of true love feelings. My heart is the soul of the soul and my male sexual organ are completely in love with you, it is useless to even try to fall in love with another, it is absolutely useless, because I only want you alone in the whole universe. The taste of your kisses is the taste of your sweet tender soul, these are kisses of higher and at the same time deep feelings. I want to thoroughly insatiably lick and kiss literally every millimeter of your body and soul. From your kiss and touch, I fly away to nirvana, it's a billion times better than sex is a taste of true love, a trillion times better than anything else in this universe. Emotions are amplified trillions of times and the heart is supposedly stopping now from a high amount of heartbeat, adrenaline of love and happiness is going through the roof. I feel nothing but love, passion, excitement and delight, only true happiness from the fact that you are with me. You are my erotic sex muse of true love, erotic relaxation music. You are a flame that caresses, but does not burn. Cold, but sweet like an ice cream you quickly conceal from caress, sweet as sugar. You are a masterpiece of confectionery, a divine dessert, too much juicy and sweet as the most expensive, precious delicacy of the highest pleasure. Seconds with you are priceless, it seems that life has not lived in vain. I would have pounced like a wild lion on you with kisses. You have the sweetest skin tone, the rarest and the most perfect one for the envy of all, so soft, tender, sensually sexy. It seems that the most beautiful and fashionable created for your image. My male sexual organ is in love only with you, he is obsessed with your beauty, he wants and loves you more and more powerful, every day he longs for you more and more and it cannot be stopped. I feel powerful to what extent you are beautiful. You are the supreme pleasure and bliss for my eyes, nerves, the heart seems to break from love, and the soul as if wants to escape from my body and have wild sex with your soul. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

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