| ADJECTIVE | all | informative, enlightening, illuminating | tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | informative, instructive | serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | |
| all | informative, informatory | providing or conveying information |
| Sounds | ihnfao'rmahtihv | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | enlightening, illuminating | |
| Opposite | unenlightening, unilluminating | Failing to inform or clarify |
| Verbs | inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
| Meaning | Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | instructive | |
| Narrower | clarifying, elucidative | That makes clear |
| demonstrative, illustrative | Serving to demonstrate | |
| didactic, didactical | instructive (especially excessively) | |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | |
| educational | Providing knowledge | |
| educative | Resulting in education | |
| explanatory | Serving or intended to explain or make clear | |
| expository, expositive | Serving to expound or set forth | |
| interpretative, interpretive | That provides interpretation | |
| ostensive | manifestly demonstrative | |
| preachy | Inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | |
| See also | informative, informatory | Providing or conveying information |
| Opposite | uninstructive | Failing to instruct |
| Spanish | informativo, instructivo | |
| Catalan | instructiu | |
| Verbs | inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
| Meaning | Providing or conveying information. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | informatory | |
| Narrower | advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive | Giving advice |
| exemplifying, illustrative | clarifying by use of examples | |
| newsy | Full of news | |
| revealing, telling, telltale | disclosing unintentionally | |
| See also | instructive, informative | Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform |
| Opposite | uninformative | Lacking information |
| Spanish | divulgativo, informativo | |
| Catalan | divulgatiu, informatiu | |
| Adverbs | informatively | in an informative manner |
| Verbs | inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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