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instructive - 10 thesaurus results
Main Entry: instructive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: informative
Synonyms: educational, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, instructional, useful, educative, enlightening, informational
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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