instructive - 10 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | instructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | educational, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, instructional, useful, educative, enlightening, informational |
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| Main Entry: | cultural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational, enlightening |
| Synonyms: | artistic, beneficial, broadening, constructive, corrective, helpful, humane, humanizing, influential, instructive, learned, liberal, nurturing, refined, refining, stimulating, uplifting, adorning, advancing, beautifying, civilizing, developmental, dignifying, disciplining, edifying, educative, elevating, ennobling, enriching, expanding, glorifying, inspirational, liberalizing, ornamenting, polishing, promoting, raising, regenerative, socializing, widening |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, advisory, expository, homiletic, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, hortative, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | educational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructional |
| Synonyms: | academic, cultural, didactic, informative, instructive, scholarly, scholastic, informational, tutorial |
| Main Entry: | explanatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, critical, demonstrative, discursive, expository, graphic, illustrative, informative, instructive, summary, supplementary, annotative, declarative, diagrammatic, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, expositional, guiding, hermeneutic, illuminative, informing, interpretive, justifying |
| Antonyms: | confusing, mysterious, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, vague |
| Main Entry: | informative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | advisory, chatty, communicative, descriptive, explanatory, forthcoming, illuminating, instructional, instructive, newsy, significant, edifying, educative, elucidative, enlightening, gossipy, informational, revealing, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, useless, unilluminating, uninformative |
| Main Entry: | pedagogic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, dogmatic, instructive, learned, profound, scholastic, teaching, professorial |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
| Synonyms: | didactic, disciplinary, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, teaching, admonitory, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, sermonic, sermonizing |
| Main Entry: | newsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | detailed, elaborate, informative, instructive |
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| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
self, abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
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