[syn: educated, enlightened]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
enlightened
adj 1: having knowledge and spiritual insight [ant:
unenlightened]
2: characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved;
"an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" [syn:
educated, enlightened]
n 1: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some
field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
[syn: initiate, enlightened] [ant: uninitiate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "enlightened":
ablaze, abreast of, aglow, alight, au courant, aware,
bathed with light, bespangled, blase, briefed, brightened,
broad-minded, candlelit, careful, circumspect, civilized,
considerate, cultivated, disabused, disappointed, discreet,
discriminating, discriminative, disenchanted, disillusioned,
educated, firelit, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, in the know,
informed, instructed, irradiate, irradiated, judgmatic, judicial,
judicious, knowledgeable, lamplit, lanternlit, liberal, lighted,
lightened, lit, lit up, literate, luminous, moonlit, open-minded,
politic, posted, primed, provident, prudent, prudential,
put straight, rational, reasonable, reflecting, reflective,
robbed of illusion, schooled, sensible, set right, sophisticated,
spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit,
taught, thoughtful, tinseled, trained, uncharmed, undeceived,
unspelled, up on, up-to-date, versed, well-advised, well-informed,
well-judged, well-versed