Informative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Informative \In*form"a*tive\, a.
     Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. --Dr. H. More.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  informative
       adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an
              enlightening glimpse of government in action" [syn: {enlightening},
               {instructive}] [ant: {unenlightening}]
       2: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform [syn: {instructive}]
          [ant: {uninstructive}]
       3: providing or conveying information [syn: {informatory}]
          [ant: {uninformative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "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