enlightened

adjective

1. Having an education: educated, informed, lettered, literate. See knowledge/ignorance.
2. Provided with information; made aware: acquainted, advised, educated, informed, instructed, knowledgeable. See knowledge/ignorance.

adj

Definition: informed, educated
Antonyms: confounded, confused, in the dark, misled, perplexed, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
  Synonym: initiate

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The adjective enlightened has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
  Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read

Meaning #2: having knowledge and spiritual insight;
  Antonym: unenlightened (meaning #1)

Meaning #3: freed from illusion
  Synonym: disillusioned

Meaning #4: having or based on relevant experience
  Synonym: educated

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - oplyst, velinformeret

Nederlands (Dutch)
verlicht

Français (French)
adj. - éclairé (un esprit), éclairé (iro)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - aufgeklärt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φωτισμένος

Italiano (Italian)
illuminato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - culto, iluminado

Русский (Russian)
просвещенный, передовой

Español (Spanish)
adj. - iluminado, ilustrado, culto, bien informado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - upplyst
adv. - upplyst

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
被启发的, 文明的, 进步的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 被啟發的, 文明的, 進步的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 계몽된

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 啓発された, 見識のある

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) متنور (ظرف) بشكل متنور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נאור, משוחרר מדיעה קדומה‬

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