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adjective
Promoting culture
Synonyms: civilizing, cultural, edifying, humanizing, refining
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adjective
Serving to educate or inform
Synonyms: informative, edifying, educational, educative, instructive, illuminative, illuminating, instructional, disillusionary, disillusive
Antonyms: unenlightening, unedifying
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verb
Make understand
Synonyms: teaching, edifying, telling, notifying, educating, illuminating, apprizing, elucidating, uplifting, preaching, advising, instructing, guiding, acquainting, crystallizing, disclosing, clearing
Antonyms: puzzling, confounding, misleading, deluding, confusing, bewildering, obscuring
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verb
Give spiritual insight to; in religion
Synonyms: edifying, illumining, illuminating, irradiating, inspiriting, persuading, converting, catechizing, saving, preaching, uplifting, inculcating, revealing, illuming
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adjective
Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
Synonyms: edifying