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.
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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61 Or should we politicize the principle of altruism on the grounds that it is no more than enlightened self-interest?
62 Intel finally conceded that its stampede of product announcements confounded at least as many people as it enlightened.
63 Despite his arrogance and cruelty towards opponents, he had been a remarkably enlightened and often liberal and generous ruler.
64 But this enlightened appreciation of outwardly exposing inner feelings does not yet apply to women.
65 Has he not already demonstrated that Kant wants to set himself up as the enlightened guardian of women and other immature persons?
66 Enlightened self-interest is, for those of us who are not saints, the necessary condition of social behaviour.
67 The Two Brewers pub is indeed an enlightened establishment, encouraging such a highclass canine clientele.
68 The Count, father-in-law of the Marquis, is the very embodiment of an eighteenth century enlightened nobleman.
69 They have a more enlightened view on access for a start.
70 It was, Smith argued, an enlightened plan: sensible, efficient, conceived in harmony.
71 In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him. Osho 
72 These were put down ferociously but were followed by the application of a more enlightened policy.
73 He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu
74 Family support may be the twenty-first-century form of enlightened self-interest.
75 Some enlightened and forward-thinking employers are already beginning to recognise this potential manpower re-source for both full and part-time staff.
76 It is a decidedly loving look that Taylor takes, which may not assuage the sensibilities of a supposedly more enlightened age.
77 For without an informed and free press there can not be an enlightened people.
78 But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch.
79 He enlightened me on the question.
80 Athenians were growing more enlightened.
81 His words have enlightened me.
82 The teacher's words made me at once become enlightened.
83 What she said enlightened all of us.
84 IBM has a most enlightened personnel policy.
85 The Buddha was amiable and enlightened.
86 North Carolina has an aggressive enlightened press.
87 His conversation is so enlightened,[http://sentencedict.com/enlightened.html] so clear.
88 I do know that he was pretty enlightened.
89 Upon hearing this, the zealot was enlightened.
90 The two-folded characteristics of Faustus, his spirit of constant pursuit and exploration represent the image of the enlightened intellectuals when the bourgeois was on its raise.
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