Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

01325451-a 'enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement';

English	edifying ₁ ( ⇔ ) , enlightening
Italian	edificante , educativo , esemplare
Japanese	啓蒙的

Definitions

English: enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
― the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read
Japanese: 知的、または道徳的な改善を奨励するためなどに、啓発的な、または励みになる
― 教会の絵は、字を読むことができなかった人々のためにさえ、啓発的な目的の役割を果たした
Indonesian: yang membawa atau mendatangkan kebaikan

Relations

Antonym:	unedifying
Semantic Field:	all_a

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TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.266; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: ▲ ▽ (+0.62 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.75 -0.12)