enlightening

Adjective

• 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
    

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
  • an enlightening glimpse of government in action
    
  • an illuminating lecture
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  edifying , informative , illuminating
• Antonyms: 
  unedifying , unenlightening , unilluminating