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Informative

/ɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/

Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.

📖 Definitions of "Informative"

adjective

1
Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
"I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week."
2
(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
3
Formative; having power to form.

25 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
enlightening	Serving to enlighten.
didacticnoun	Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
instructivenoun	Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
revealingnoun	Informative.
newsynoun	Containing lots of news; informative.
demonstrativenoun	(grammar) That specifies the thing or person referred to.
clarifyingnoun	Providing clarity; making clear.
expositive	That explains; expository
tellingnoun	Revealing information; bearing significance.
doctrinairenoun	A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
elucidative	Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
educationalnoun	Of, or relating to education.
expository	Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
didactical	didactic
consultive	Determined by, or relating to, consultation
explanatory	Intended to serve as an explanation.
illustrative	Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
informatory	Providing or communicating information.
advisorynoun	Able to give advice.
exemplifying	clarifying by use of examples
consultative	That gives advice or consultation; advisory.
interpretative	Marked by interpretation.
interpretive	Alternative form of interpretative. [Marked by interpretation.]
educative	Serving to educate; educational.
consultatory	Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
uninformative	lacking useful or interesting information
unenlightening	Not enlightening
uninstructive	Not instructive.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
informatory	Providing or communicating information.
instructive	Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
illustrative	Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
educative	Serving to educate; educational.
demonstrative	(grammar) That specifies the thing or person referred to.
enlightening	Serving to enlighten.
didactic	Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
expositive	That explains; expository
revealingverb	Informative.
explanatory	Intended to serve as an explanation.
expository	Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
elucidative	Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
consultive	Determined by, or relating to, consultation
consultatory	Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
clarifying	Providing clarity; making clear.
consultative	That gives advice or consultation; advisory.
advisory	Able to give advice.
didactical	didactic
interpretative	Marked by interpretation.
interpretive	Alternative form of interpretative. [Marked by interpretation.]