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informative
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informative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective informative has 3 senses
- informative(a = adj.all) enlightening, illuminating - tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" Derived form verb inform1
- informative(a = adj.all) instructive - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform; Array Derived form verb inform1
- informative(a = adj.all) informatory - providing or conveying information; Array Derived form verb inform1
Antonym: uninformative
CIDE DICTIONARY
informative, a.
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
informative, adj. (also informatory) giving information; instructive.
Derivative
informatively adv. informativeness n.
Etymology
med.L informativus (as INFORM)
THESAURUS
informative
advisory, autodidactic, coeducational, communicative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, enlightening, exhortatory, explanatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informational, informing, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitory, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, revealing, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary
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