Synonyms for illuminate
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Enlighten — to clarify or make something understandable
enlighten, elucidate, cast light on, brighten, clarify, clear, clear up, bring home, crystallize, crystalize US, crystallise UK, sort out, straighten out, explicitize, crystalise
Other
illustrate, gleam, quill, emblazon, belight rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To clarify or make something understandable.
- v. 2
To shine light on something.
Related words
- Other spellings
- alluminate
Forms
- Past participle
- illuminated
e.g. illuminated → enlightened, elucidated, brightened, clarified…
Example sentences
- brighten He was painting the walls to brighten up the room.
- enlighten The ray of wisdom must enlighten new horizons.
- lighten Ziri wanted to lighten up the mood with a few jokes.
By length
- 4 letters
- fire2
- 5 letters
- light1, clear1, shine1, quill1, gleam1
- 6 letters
- illume
- 7 letters
- clarify3, lighten2, belight
- 8 letters
- brighten2, illumine, emblazon3
- 9 letters
- enlighten3, elucidate4, irradiate4
- 10 letters
- illustrate3, crystalize, crystalise
- 11 letters
- crystallize3, crystallise, explicitize
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fire2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- illuminer
- Deutsch
- illuminieren