1.
[syn: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Illuminated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Illuminating.] [L. illuminatus, p. p. of
illuminare; pref. il- in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen
light. See Luminous, and cf. Illume, Illumine,
Enlimn, Limn.]
1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light,
literally or figuratively; to brighten.
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2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a
building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
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3. To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters,
or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in
manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
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4. To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by
knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to
illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
illuminated \illuminated\ adj. [p. p. of illuminate.]
1. rendered luminous by rays of light striking and
reflecting; -- used especially of illumination by
artificial light.
Syn: lighted.
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2. Adorned with pictorial or graphical designs, as a book or
page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures
in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the
Middle Ages; as, an illuminated manuscript.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
illuminated
adj 1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated
advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a
brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn:
illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "illuminated":
ablaze, afflicted, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bent,
bespangled, boiled, bombed, boozy, brightened, candlelit, canned,
cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, elevated, enlightened,
firelit, fried, fuddled, gaslit, half-seas over, high, in a blaze,
irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened,
lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, luminous, lushy, moonlit, muzzy,
oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered,
polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed,
soaked, soused, spangled, squiffy, star-spangled, star-studded,
starlit, stewed, stinko, studded, sunlit, swacked, tanked, tight,
tinseled