Enlighten vs Utter - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between enlighten and utter

is that enlighten is to supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth while utter is to say.

As an adjective utter is

outer; furthest out, most remote.

As an adverb utter is

further out; further away, outside.

enlighten

English

Verb

(en verb)

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

Antonyms

* endarken

utter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; compare (outer).

Adjective

(-)

* Chapman

By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.

* Spenser

As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

* Milton

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

(obsolete) Outward.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness

* Atterbury

They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

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Synonyms

* see also

Derived terms

* utterly * utterness * uttermost

Etymology 2

Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.

Verb

(en verb)

To say

Don't you utter another word!

To use the voice

Sally uttered a sigh of relief.

The dog uttered a growling bark.

To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved

Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.

To make (a noise)

Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.

(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation

Derived terms

* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterable

Etymology 3

(etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)

(label) Further out; further away, outside.

*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:

*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

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