illuminate
verb (used with object)
to supply or brighten with light; light up.
illuminatingly
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a word derived from
illuminate.
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a word derived from
illuminating.
illuminatingadjectivegiving or casting light.
Example Sentences
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World War II was the formative experience for more than one generation of British men, women and children, as Mr. Allport illuminatingly shows us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
There have been plenty of successful dark and bittersweet musicals before, but not since Sondheim have tragedy and comedy been so illuminatingly entwined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
These are the things we’ve argued about in the past year and change, sometimes coarsely, sometimes tediously, but very often illuminatingly.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2016
The scene is gross, and not illuminatingly so.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
Mr. Dehan at least has proved himself far too clever for me to tolerate this threadbare theme, not very illuminatingly treated, from his valuable pen.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 by Various
