Synonym: disillusioned, educated, initiate, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read. Similar words: enlighten, enlightenment, frightened, blighted, moonlight, delighted, tighten, brighten. Meaning: [-nd] n. people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity. adj. 1. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding 2. having knowledge and spiritual insight; 3. freed from illusion 4. having or based on relevant experience.
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31 We will only succeed if we start to develop a doctrine of international community based on the principle of enlightened self-interest.
32 It was commissioned by the Science Museum - obviously with a more enlightened policy than in 1906.
33 Imagine a relatively just government ruling over a relatively morally enlightened population.
34 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened despotism, secularism, nationalism and liberalism had all fanned the flames.
35 Bright new facilities and therapies were provided, plus enlightened teaching and special care.
36 And what enlightened people would not be proud of having originated the very idea of philosophical inquiry?
37 Younger workers, observing this, have turned elsewhere in order to be part of a more enlightened and progressive industry.
38 But only an enlightened few saw this as a symbol of national renewal.
39 One, deriving from Hobbes and Locke, regards the consent given as an expression of rational enlightened self-interest.
40 But I would hope we live in a more enlightened age.
41 The tutorial programs in Boston were using them and so were many of the more enlightened private schools.
42 For most people, paying tax was a kind of enlightened self-interest.
43 Part of the reason for this enlightened attitude is the lesson of the past.
44 But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
45 Outside a federal printing office they prayed that Congress would embrace more enlightened poverty policies.
46 The enlightened founders were eager to produce a universal creed that they could throw like a tent over the diverse church religions.
47 It was not always the more enlightened who got their way.
48 It is obvious that it thought the enlightened amateur, like Hope himself, was the ideal judge.
49 The sustained good health of populations requires enlightened management of our social resources, economic relations, and of the natural world.
50 Perhaps sensibly, Mr Bush's campaign appeals more to enlightened self-interest than to self-sacrifice.
51 The holist is enlightened by an account of the factors constraining people's actions.
52 Now enlightened farmers are fencing off and replanting areas which can he selectively utilised for animal feeding.
53 He therefore requires and merits more enlightened treatment than the correction preferred previously.
54 Enlightened fathers, I knew, did diapers, and this would be the first of many.
55 An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
56 What are our enlightened descendants going to do about the fourth element,[sentence dictionary] Earth?
57 It is a training method developed by enlightened horse handlers.
58 But its use still requires an enlightened management and a long-term commitment.
59 Crosfield was an enlightened employer in the paternalistic tradition, deeply influenced by his Quaker upbringing.
60 Though his mild enlightened faith did not square with theirs, the churches claimed him.
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