enlightening
adjective
informative, instructive, or eye-opening; giving intellectual or spiritual light.
unenlightening
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a word derived from
enlightening.
Example Sentences
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An unenlightening spectacle last week saw Porter float above the fray, wearily raising her eyebrows over the squabbling among her competitors.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Preseason games are never worth extreme analysis, but these first two weeks of exhibition contests have been especially unenlightening.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
It is a life of perpetual dissatisfaction, a life of thin and sugary highs followed by long and unenlightening lows.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2020
Sporting prosthetic teeth, a wig and a funny accent, Swinton pops up briefly as Christoph Waltz’s virtual therapist, Dr Shrink-Rom, in Terry Gilliam’s chaotic and frankly unenlightening fantasy parable.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2020
Meantime, though ancient history, this is not altogether unenlightening.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
