illumine

Other forms of illumine

past tense

illumined·

present participle

illumining·

third person

illumines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about illumine

What does illumine mean?

illumine means "make lighter or brighter".

How many syllables are in illumine?

illumine has 3 syllables: il-lu-mine. The stress falls on "il".

What is another word for illumine?

Close synonyms include light, illume, light up, illuminate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is illumine a common word?

illumine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.