Illuminate

Quick meaning: Illuminate is a verb meaning (transitive) To shine light on something.

Meaning

(transitive) To shine light on something.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
2. (transitive, figurative) To clarify or make something understandable.
3. (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
4. (transitive, figurative) To make spectacular.
5. (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
6. (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
7. (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.

Example Sentences

Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining / […]

Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.

February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?

The situation, as it was, made it more difficult for him to leave. Yet it illuminated the very reasons why he had to go.

Word Forms

• illuminates
• illuminating
• illuminated

Synonyms for illuminate

Depending on context, synonyms include belight, enlighten, illumine, clarify, elucidate, explicitize.

Antonyms for illuminate

Common opposites include endarken, obscure, blur, confuse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enlighten, illumine, light up, illume, clear, clarify.

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