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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | educational, educative, enlightening, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, informational, instructional, useful |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | educational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructional |
| Synonyms: | academic, cultural, didactic, informational, informative, instructive, scholarly, scholastic, tutorial |
| Main Entry: | explanatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, annotative, critical, declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, discursive, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, expositional, expository, graphic, guiding, hermeneutic, illuminative, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretive, justifying, summary, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | confusing, mysterious, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, vague |
| Main Entry: | informative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | advisory, chatty, communicative, descriptive, edifying, educative, elucidative, enlightening, explanatory, forthcoming, gossipy, illuminating, informational, instructional, instructive, newsy, revealing, revelatory, significant |
| Antonyms: | unilluminating, unimportant, uninformative, useless |
| Main Entry: | pedagogic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, dogmatic, instructive, learned, professorial, profound, scholastic, teaching |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
| Synonyms: | admonitory, didactic, disciplinary, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, sermonic, sermonizing, teaching |
| Main Entry: | newsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | detailed, elaborate, informative, instructive |
| Main Entry: | consultative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advisory |
| Synonyms: | advising, consultatory, consulting, consultive, instructive |
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