educative

ed·u·ca·tive

adj \ˈe-jə-ˌkā-tiv\

Definition of EDUCATIVE

1

: tending to educate : instructive <an educative experience>

2

: of or relating to education

Examples of EDUCATIVE

1. <college students discover that what they experience outside the classroom can be just as educative as anything that happens within>

First Known Use of EDUCATIVE

1844

Related to EDUCATIVE

Synonyms: educational, informative, enlightening, illuminating, informational, informatory, instructional, instructive

Antonyms: unenlightening, unilluminating, uninformative, uninstructive

Related Words: comprehensive, copious, detailed, full; communicatory, edifying, elucidative, explanatory; chatty, gossipy, newsy; availing, beneficial, constructive, helpful, profitable; practical, serviceable, usable (also useable), useful, worthwhile

Near Antonyms: impractical, unhelpful, unusable, useless

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Rhymes with EDUCATIVE

aggregative, agitative, applicative, carminative, circulative, cogitative, combinative, commutative, connotative, consecrative, consultative, contemplative, copulative, corporative, denotative, dissipative, duplicative, facultative, federative, generative, germinative, gravitative, imitative, implicative, innovative, instigative, integrative, irritative, iterative, legislative, limitative, meditative, meliorative, motivative, nominative, nuncupative, operative, palliative, penetrative, procreative, propagative, qualitative, quantitative, recreative, regulative, replicative, separative, terminative, vegetative