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. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not yet qualified to speak to them, you have not yet mastered the ART to commune with them. Ordinarily communication happens between two minds, communion between two beings.

2. Otto Perez:

   It's a personal decision, I have asked God for great wisdom so I can be enlightened and take the best decisions for the Guatemalan people.

3. Carl Jung:

   One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

4. Thomas Merton:

   We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

5. Konstanty Gebert:

   Both sides are living a myth, we didn't build a Poland of enlightened, free citizens who want to live in a tolerant society.