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
America falls head over heels for this kind of docuseries, even if this specific example is equal parts unenlightening and gross.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2021
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
Oddly, though, he manages to write nearly 20 pages on attachment style and politicians with only a single — and singularly unenlightening — paragraph about our current president.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018
Meantime, though ancient history, this is not altogether unenlightening.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
