edifying

Thân thiện

The museum visit was an edifying experience for the students.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement: Something described as "edifying" provides instruction or insight that improves one's mind, character, or understanding. It has a positive, instructive quality.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The documentary about the scientist's life was both fascinating and edifying.
  • She found the lecture on ethics to be a deeply edifying experience.
  • The museum's exhibit serves an edifying purpose for visitors of all ages.

Advanced Usage

• "to find something edifying": to experience something as intellectually or morally instructive.
  • I find reading historical biographies particularly edifying.
• Used to describe media, experiences, or discourse that aims to educate and uplift rather than merely entertain.
  • The critic praised the film for its edifying message about compassion.

Variants and Related Words

• Edify (verb): To instruct or benefit someone intellectually or morally.
  • The teacher aimed to edify her students, not just prepare them for exams.
• Edification (noun): The act of edifying or the state of being edified; intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
  • He read the philosophical texts for his own edification.

Synonyms

• Instructive: Providing useful information or knowledge.
• Enlightening: Giving greater knowledge and understanding.
• Uplifting: Morally or spiritually elevating.
• Educational: Providing education or knowledge.

Antonyms

• Unedifying: Not edifying; morally or intellectually degrading.
• Corrupting: Causing someone to become morally depraved.
• Banal: Lacking originality; obvious and boring.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• enlightening