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What is the adjective for illuminations?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs illume, illuminate and illumine which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

illuminating
  1. Providing illumination or light.
  2. (figuratively) Providing clarification or explanation; educational, revealing.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. instructive, enlightening, educational, informative, instructional, informational, educative, edifying, informatory, revealing, helpful, explanatory, clarifying, enriching, fluorescent, illuminated, incandescent, luminescent, revelatory, rewarding, didactic, improving, scholastic, moralistic, pedagogic, doctrinal, homiletic, preceptive, heuristic, propaedeutic, illuminative, pedantic, useful, elucidative, academic, telling, advisory, factual, tuitional, expository, newsy, teaching, cultural, pedagogical, tutorial, uplifting, refining, scholarly, communicative, descriptive … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Their recollections perhaps provide a more illuminating insight into the McLeish story.”
illuminated
  1. irradiated by light, lit
  2. (of a manuscript) decorated and illustrated.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. bright, lit, lighted, brightened, alight, illumined, ablaze, lightsome, light, irradiated, floodlit, well-lit, lit up, brilliant, radiant, luminous, incandescent, shining, dazzling, glowing, shimmering, refulgent, effulgent, gleaming, lambent, fulgent, lucent, lustrous, phosphorescent, aglow, flashing, sparkling, resplendent, beaming, shiny, candescent, coruscating, luminescent, bedazzling, scintillating, lucid, clear, glittering, splendid, irradiant, sunny, sheeny, fluorescent, glaring, twinkling … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He walks up to one of the machines, inserts a ten-dollar bill in the appropriate slot and presses some green illuminated number pad.”
illuminable
  1. that can be illuminated or made lighter
  2. understandable
illuminative
  1. of, capable of, or causing illumination
  2. Synonyms:
      3. explicative, explicatory, expository, elucidative, explanatory, enlightening, informative, exegetic, informational, illustrative, instructional, educative, instructive, edifying, explanative, expositive, interpretative, interpretive, exegetical, didactic, academic, scholarly, scholastic, tutorial, elucidatory, hermeneutical, hermeneutic, annotative, illuminating, clarifying, informing, descriptive, demonstrative, educational, allegorical, revealing, diagrammatic, graphic, guiding, expositional, indicative, revelatory, describing, discursive, informatory, analytical, declarative, representative, helpful, delineative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for a very vigorous and illuminative statement. It was most helpful to the committee.”
      “Both the surgeon and the physician feel the need of a constant illuminative light.”
      “The new projectors from CASIO have an illuminative performance of up to 3,000 ANSI lumens without any need for mercury lamps.”
illuminary
  1. illuminative
illumined
  1. illuminated
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bright, illuminated, lighted, lit, brightened, alight, ablaze, lightsome, light, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lit up, irradiated, aglow, dazzling, incandescent, shining, flashing, gleaming, lustrous, sparkling, refulgent, shimmering, resplendent, well-lit, floodlit, glowing, lambent, phosphorescent, lucent, sunny, sunlit, beaming, shiny, effulgent, fulgent, glittering, scintillating, intense, vivid, glaring, glistening, blazing, twinkling, coruscating, undimmed, irradiant, fulgid, golden … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The room was illumined by the soft glow of the candles, creating a warm and cozy ambiance.”
illuminate
  1. (obsolete) enlightened
illumed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of illume
  2. Synonyms:
      3. illumined, lit, lighted, lightened, bathed, beaconed, emblazed, illuminated, irradiated, brightened, lit up, cast light on, cast light upon, flashed, enlightened, belit, belighted, shone on, flooded with light, floodlighted, floodlit, highlighted, emblazoned, cast, shed light on, hit with a light, shed light, thrown light on, threw light on, gleamed, shined, shone, clarified, spotlit, spotlighted, limelit, limelighted, shone upon, kindled, fired, ignited, flooded, animated, furnished, made visible, made bright, made brighter, bathed in light, brightened up, made lighter … more
illuming
  1. present participle of illume
  2. Synonyms:
      3. illumining, lighting, lightening, bathing, beaconing, emblazing, illuminating, irradiating, brightening, lighting up, flashing, enlightening, belighting, shining on, throwing light on, flooding with light, floodlighting, highlighting, emblazoning, casting light on, casting light upon, shining upon, clarifying, casting, flooding, animating, limelighting, spotlighting, furnishing, making bright, making visible, igniting, firing, kindling, making brighter, bathing in light, hitting with a light, gleaming, shining, shedding light, shedding light on, educating, edifying, nurturing, inspiring, instructing, teaching … more
illumining
  1. present participle of illumine
  2. Synonyms:
      3. brightening, lighting, irradiating, lightening, emblazing, illuming, illuminating, beaconing, bathing, lighting up, throwing light on, casting light on, shedding light on, floodlighting, spotlighting, flashing, enlightening, shining on, belighting, flooding with light, shining a light on, gleaming, shining, kindling, limelighting, emblazoning, highlighting, making brighter, casting light upon, shining upon, beaming, glowing, intensifying, burnishing, brightening up, making lighter, clarifying, casting, flooding, animating, furnishing, making bright, making visible, igniting, firing, bathing in light, hitting with a light, shedding light, educating … more
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