Synonyms for enlightened
en·light·ened

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1. enlightened

   Synonyms:
   elevated, exalted, grand, great, humane, intellectual, intelligent, noble, refined

   Antonyms:
   animal, base, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, ignorant, imbruted, insensible, lascivious, sensual, sottish, stolid, stupid, swinish, unintellectual, unspiritual, vile

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1. initiate, enlightenedadjective

   people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

   "it is very familiar to the initiate"

   Synonyms:
   pundit, learned person, novice, initiate, savant, beginner, tyro, tiro

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, dark, benighted, uninformed

2. enlightenedadjective

   having knowledge and spiritual insight

   Synonyms:
   educated

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, benighted, uninformed, dark

3. educated, enlightenedadjective

   characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

   "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"

   Synonyms:
   educated

   Antonyms:
   unenlightened, benighted, dark, uninformed

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1. enlightenedadjective

   Synonyms:
   instructed, informed, educated, intelligent, refined, highly civilized

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1. List of paraphrases for "enlightened":

   informed, illuminated, illustrated, lit, clarified, open-minded, broad-minded

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1. Denis Diderot:

   The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

2. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:

   Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

3. Chuang - Tzu:

   When the Enlightened King rules his deeds spread over the whole world but seem not from himself. His riches are loaned to the Myriad Things, but the people do not depend on him. He is there, but no one mentions his name. He let things find their own delight

4. Andrew Auernheimer:

   Weev ? I got ta tell you bro, I don't think that you're very enlightened, i will pray for you tonight.

5. Aleister Crowley:

   Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.