enlightening
adjective
informative, instructive, or eye-opening; giving intellectual or spiritual light.
unenlightening
-
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
As it stands, “A Luminous Republic” reads too often like a middling civil servant’s report: underlined by good intentions and promising themes, but ultimately unenlightening.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2020
We’ve gotten these in every year since 1992, and yet the data remain somewhat unenlightening.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018
Is your name Smith?" he received only the unenlightening reply, "Quite right; quite right.
From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
