highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
approval If you describe someone or their attitudes as enlightened, you mean that they have sensible, modern attitudes and ways of dealing with things. Enlightened companies include its human resources in their estimation of the firm's worth
people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism