enlightening vs informative

enlightening and informative both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
enlightening	No	Yes	No	No
informative	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, enlightening and informative are synonyms defined as:

enlightening and informative: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

Other synonyms of enlightening include illuminating.

enlightening (adjective)	informative (adjective)
tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance	providing or conveying information
enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement	tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
	serving to instruct or enlighten or inform