enlightening
adjectiveHow many syllables in enlightening?
There are 4 syllables in the word enlightening.How to pronounce enlightening:
Definition of enlightening:
- enlightening (adjective):
- intended to teach or instruct people
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance.
- providing or tending to provide knowledge, understanding, or insight
Synonyms for enlightening:
didactic
edifying
educational
educative
illuminating
informational
informative
instructional
instructive
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- bureaucracy
- affidavit
- accurately
- toxicity
- maculated
- unawakened
- discontinue
- composition
- underpinning
- patronizing
- malevolent
- calculating
- accidently
- obnoxious
- hospitable
- grammatical
- vicarious
- mediator
- consummation
- Anglocentric
- sinopias
- excitable
- enchiladas
- subjugation
- resistable
- receptiveness
- hypocrisy
- ferocity
- confederate
- collectively
- persuasion
- forsythia
- overmatched
- decisively
- colloquial
- agreeing
- millimetre
- importuning
- frighteningly
- unnatural
- twenty seven
- hyperalert
- acknowledgment
- humpty-dumpty
- unitedly
- narrow-minded
- phenomena
- fickle-minded
- duplicity
- unconvincing
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Syllable Fun Fact
Stress-timed languages, such as English, are characterized by variability in syllable duration but a relatively constant time between stressed syllables.
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