enlightened
IPA: ɛnɫˈaɪtʌnd
noun
- Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism
adjective
- Educated or informed.
- Made aware of something.
- Freed from illusion.
- Exceedingly wise.
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Examples of "enlightened" in Sentences
- In that instant the boy was enlightened.
- In that instant, the boy was enlightened.
- The consignor was enlightened by the teachings.
- It is the cutting edge of the enlightened mind.
- And there even existed what we called enlightened despots.
- It's that approach to life which we call enlightened, scientific.
- I will give her credit for determining criteria for choosing the best, not an easy task, but I don't feel enlightened from the reading of the experience.
- It is called enlightened self-interest, and it is the exact same business plan pursued by the original architects for America's best and most prosperous cities.
- The preacher may perhaps interest what he terms enlightened audiences, but when required to analyze truth and present it in a plain way to plain people he cannot do it.
- Murano used the term enlightened governance five times in the three-paragraph message but did not use the term that the students and faculty members voicing concern have been using -- shared governance.
- The next level of action is usually taken under the auspices of what I call "enlightened risk management," where a company sees the inter-dependencies between their raw material supply or their market and the world it lives in and then takes action, often in collaboration with an NGO, to protect it.
- The use of the term enlightened is telling, since the strongest argument for the acceptance of pornography — and the hard-core variety in particular — is precisely that it represents a form of sexual progress, a more civilized approach to the problem of the male libido than either the toleration of mass prostitution or the attempt, from the Victorian era onward, to simultaneously legislate prostitution away and hold married couples to an unreasonably high standard of fidelity.
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