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educational

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of educational

1 providing useful information or knowledge
  • We found the talk on easy ways for families to recycle household products very educational.
Synonyms of educational

educative, enlightening, illuminating, informational, informative, informatory, instructional, instructive
Words Related to educational

comprehensive, copious, detailed, full

communicatory, edifying, elucidative, explanatory

chatty, gossipy, newsy

availing, beneficial, constructive, helpful, profitable
Near Antonyms of educational

impractical, unhelpful, unusable, useless
Antonyms of educational

unenlightening, unilluminating, uninformative, uninstructive
2 of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level
  • The community college strives to meet the educational needs of the residents of its urban location.
Synonyms of educational

academic (also academical), intellectual, scholarly, scholastic
Words Related to educational

bookish, geeky, nerdish, nerdy, pedantic, professorial, tweedy

curricular

educative, instructive

collegiate, graduate, postgraduate
Near Antonyms of educational

extracurricular
Antonyms of educational

nonacademic, noneducational, unacademic, unscholarly

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