| 单词 | illuminating |
| 释义 | illuminating (once / 1932 pages) adj Something that's illuminating makes you better informed, more aware, or more inspired. An illuminating documentary film gives you all kinds of new information about its subject. Describe things as illuminating when they clarify the situation or explain the facts. A long conversation with someone you don't know well can be illuminating, helping you understand her much better. Likewise, studying the details of any subject, whether it's dog training or art history, is also illuminating. The verb illuminate means "light up," and it comes from the Latin word illuminare, "to throw into light or make bright," which is also figuratively used to mean "illustrate." WORD FAMILYilluminating: illuminatingly, unilluminating+/illuminate: illuminated, illuminates, illuminating, illumination/illuminated: unilluminated/illumination: illuminations USAGE EXAMPLES“Illuminating ‘Moonlight’” includes that film, Mr. Jenkins’s earlier work, and movies that influenced him. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) One aptly titled episode was told almost entirely from Clark’s perspective, offering an illuminating — and necessary — portrait. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) adj tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance an illuminating lecture Syn|Ant enlightening, informative unenlightening, unilluminating failing to inform or clarify |
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