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instruction - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: instruction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: education
Synonyms: direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, guidance, information, lesson, preparation, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, apprenticeship, chalk talk, coaching, drilling, grounding, schooling
Main Entry: instruction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demand, command
Synonyms: advice, briefing, direction, directive, information, injunction, mandate, order, plan, ruling
Antonyms: question
Main Entry: advice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: recommendation
Synonyms: admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer*, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise
Notes: advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem
Antonyms: betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation
Main Entry: behest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: order; personal decree
Synonyms: bidding, charge, command, commandment, demand, dictate, direction, injunction, instruction, mandate, order, precept, request, wish, word, expressed desire, prompting, solicitation
Main Entry: briefing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: preparation by informing of facts
Synonyms: conference, discussion, guidance, information, initiation, instruction, meeting, preamble, rundown, update, background meeting, directions, priming
Main Entry: decree
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mandate, legal order
Synonyms: act, announcement, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, declaration, dictum, direction, directive, edict, enactment, injunction, instruction, judgment, law, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, pronouncement, rap*, regulation, rule, ruling, say, statute, charging, decretum, promulgation, the riot act, the word, ukase
Main Entry: doctrine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opinion; principle
Synonyms: article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule
Antonyms: disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief
Main Entry: edification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: improvement, education
Synonyms: betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, teaching, tuition, uplifting, irradiation, schooling
Antonyms: destruction, worsening
Main Entry: enlightenment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: awareness, understanding
Synonyms: civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness
Antonyms: bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement
Main Entry: guidance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: counseling
Synonyms: advice, auspices, conduct, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching, conduction
Main Entry: guideline
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: direction
Synonyms: clue, code, guidance, guide, instruction, key, mark, marker, precept, protocol, rule, signal, ground rule, standard procedure
Main Entry: information
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: facts, news
Synonyms: advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word*
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: injunction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: decree
Synonyms: admonition, ban, bar, behest, bidding, charge, command, demand, dictate, embargo, exhortation, instruction, mandate, order, precept, prohibition, ruling, word, writ, enjoinder
Main Entry: knowledge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's understanding; information
Synonyms: ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: mandate
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: authority, order
Synonyms: authorization, behest, bidding, blank check*, carte blanche*, charge, command, commission, decree, dictate, directive, edict, fiat, go-ahead*, green light*, imperative, injunction, instruction, okay*, precept, sanction, warrant, word*
Antonyms: denial, veto
Main Entry: nurture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: development, nourishment
Synonyms: breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing
Antonyms: deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation
Main Entry: precept
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: law, rule of behavior, action
Synonyms: axiom, behest, bidding, byword, canon, command, commandment, decree, direction, doctrine, dogma, edict, formula, fundamental, guideline, injunction, instruction, law, mandate, maxim, motto, order, ordinance, prescript, principle, regulation, rule, saying, statute, tenet, decretum
Main Entry: prescription
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: formula, medicine
Synonyms: decree, direction, drug, edict, instruction, law, mixture, ordinance, preparation, prescript, recipe, regulation, remedy, rule
Main Entry: recommendation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: advice, approval
Synonyms: advocacy, approbation, blessing, certificate, character reference, charge, commendation, counsel, direction, endorsement, esteem, eulogy, favorable mention, good word, guidance, injunction, instruction, judgment, letter of support, order, pass, plug*, praise, proposal, proposition, reference, sanction, steer*, suggestion, support, testimonial, tip, tribute, two cents' worth, urging
Antonyms: condemnation, disapproval, discouragement
Main Entry: supervision
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: management of people, project
Synonyms: administration, auspices, care, charge, conduct, control, direction, guidance, handling, instruction, oversight, running, surveillance, intendance, superintendence, superintendency
Antonyms: serve, work
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