educational

adjective

Definition of educationalnext
1
as in instructional
providing useful information or knowledge we found the talk on easy ways for families to recycle household products very educational

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2
as in academic
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

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Recent Examples of educational Prior to her new role, DeGregorio served as senior vice president, managing director of sales for educational/informational programming for HMPG since 2022. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Courses will focus on teaching methods, instructional development and educational research. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Consumer Electronics Enhancing learning and educational access. — Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Warren-Thomas hopes additional support will eventually allow Uplift to accommodate thousands of attendees while expanding its educational programming, giveaways and collaborations. — Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 Doggyland features a cast of dogs who sing, rap and dance to fun and educational songs that promote social-emotional and cognitive development in young children. — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 Brokers no longer face a mandatory 12-hour wait period between educational seminars and sales presentations. — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026 Education - North Carolina must invest to correct any educational deficiencies and to make sure that teachers are compensated at or above the national average salary. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026 Money raised will fund educational programming, including what Lords Park Zoo offers each summer. — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for educational
  1. instructional
  2. academic
  3. educative
  4. scholarly
  5. informational
  6. scholastic
  7. informative
  8. instructive
Adjective
  • Courses will focus on teaching methods, instructional development and educational research.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Witness testifies Birchmore was excited to be pregnant The second witness to testify was Cheryl Carlson, a school principal in Auburn who previously hired Birchmore to be an instructional assistant working with students in Sharon.
    — Kristina Rex, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of instructional
Adjective
  • The experts, who had all studied AI in academic settings, all brought up the ironies of the automation problem, where AI makes errors that humans can’t catch.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026
  • His main issues are declining enrollment, academic struggles, teacher turnover and family engagement.
    — Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of academic
Adjective
  • That role corresponds to public service broadcasters which do have a brief to ensure educative children’s entertainment.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Perhaps most consequential in this move will be the expansion of the states’ authority and responsibility for educative quality within their jurisdictions.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Definition of educative
Adjective
  • If the source is a scholarly journal article, the article’s title appears in a larger font above the additional bibliographic information.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Generating scholarly tomes at a rate of more than one a year involves obsessive amounts of research.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • Compliance checks would ensure trading entities maintain informational barriers with their sibling exchange, including the use of separate physical offices.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Has the decline concentrated in broad, informational terms, the ones most likely to trigger an AI summary, while transactional and branded terms held steady?
    — Gaetano Romeo, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of informational
Adjective
  • The coming-of-age drama, based on Coffey’s life, follows a high school student with mild cerebral palsy trying to wrestle for the school’s scholastic wrestling team.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The district boasts 15 elementary schools — among them a regional gifted center, one scholastic academy and two Montessori schools.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of scholastic
Adjective
  • That gap between surgical and non-surgical figures is informative.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The assumed inference is that travelers rely on Google for their travel needs and that informative brochures and knowledgeable attendants are a quaint idea that has outlived its usefulness.
    — Frank Hosek, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of informative
Adjective
  • There is something instructive in the agent concluding a diatribe on quelling revolutionary violence with a note about feeling inspired.
    — Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The opportunity to study both cuts side by side is invaluable for Kubrick enthusiasts — and instructive for film students interested in examining what drastically different effects the same footage can yield.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of instructive

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“Educational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/educational. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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