Synonyms of instructed

instructed 1 of 2

adjective

as in informed

Related Words

• informed
• trained
• skilled
• schooled
• briefed
• didactic
• professorial
• enlightened
• pedantic
• academic
• versed
• self-instructed
• didactical
• polished
• bookish
• self-taught
• well-bred
• learned
• homeschooled
• self-educated
• inkhorn
• cultivated
• refined
• educated
• cultured
• knowledgeable
• civilized
• highbrowed
• cerebral
• highbrow
• intellectual
• overeducated
• lettered
• literate
• erudite
• scholarly
• polyhistoric
• polymath
• well-read

Dissimilar Words

• ignorant
• unlearned
• illiterate
• uneducated
• benighted
• dark
• unlettered
• uncivilized
• uncultivated
• uncultured
• unscholarly
• semiliterate
• uninformed
• uninstructed
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unintellectual
• lowbrow
• untutored
• untaught
• unknowledgeable
• unschooled
• undereducated
• ill-bred

instructed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of instruct

1

as in taught

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field

spent his military career instructing young pilots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• taught
• educated
• trained
• schooled
• tutored
• indoctrinated
• coached
• prepared
• guided
• lectured
• informed
• lessoned
• mentored
• primed
• preached
• drilled
• led
• grounded
• directed
• qualified
• introduced
• briefed
• instilled
• inculcated
• versed
• initiated
• showed
• implanted
• familiarized
• enlightened
• fitted
• edified
• moralized
• retrained
• reared
• habilitated
• catechized
• homeschooled
• imparted (to)
• retaught
• reeducated
• reschooled

2

as in advised

to give information to

instructed everyone in the use of the new telephone system

Synonyms & Similar Words

• informed
• advised
• told
• briefed
• taught
• acquainted
• apprised
• versed
• educated
• familiarized
• enlightened
• notified
• alerted
• cleared
• caught up
• filled in
• let someone know
• convinced
• kept (someone) posted
• lectured
• hipped
• assured
• reassured
• clued (in)
• advertised
• wised (up)
• announced (to)
• disclosed (to)
• certified
• schooled
• tutored
• warranted
• disillusioned
• disenchanted
• disabused
• undeceived

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misled
• misinformed

3

as in told

to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority

the proctors instructed everyone to put their pencils down and hand in their tests

Synonyms & Similar Words

• told
• ordered
• asked
• commanded
• directed
• advised
• enjoined
• begged
• warned
• adjured
• requested
• charged
• appointed
• bade
• required
• petitioned
• compelled
• authorized
• forced
• bossed (around)
• assigned
• entreated
• commissioned
• obliged
• beseeched
• managed
• supervised
• counseled
• led
• conducted
• controlled
• constrained
• coerced
• superintended
• oversaw

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• followed
• observed
• kept
• obeyed
• minded
• complied (with)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of instructed

Adjective

Judge William Sullivan denied Reddington’s request for a mistrial but instructed prosecutors to address the issue with their witness. — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

The judge denied the motion but instructed jurors to dismiss the comments and sent them home early. — Nbc News, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026

Refusing to step out when instructed can lead to charges like interfering with public duties or resisting detention, even if the underlying stop was for a minor violation. — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026

The country has introduced price caps on gasoline and other petroleum products for the first time in decades to prevent costs from soaring, and instructed refiners to divert naphtha exports for domestic use while scrambling to secure alternative oil supplies and shipping routes. — ABC News, 7 May 2026

Its demise has stranded thousands of passengers who have to adjust plans and millions who have tickets for future dates — Spirit canceled all flights, shut down its customer service and instructed customers not to go to the airport. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 2 May 2026

The Plus line consists of food-flavoring essential oils that are pure enough to ingest (only in the instructed amounts). — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026

Workers reported that in early August supervisors cut night shifts and later instructed casual and contract workers not to return. — Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025

The company removed the press release from its website and instructed employees not to mention it again, according to the filing. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025

Verb

The downtown area was closed to vehicles and electric scooters, and police had instructed people not to bring bicycles, umbrellas or sharp objects. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

The agency instructed hospitals to share detailed patient information for more than 10,000 types of injuries or conditions, such as vaccine reactions, suicide attempts, or stingray stabs. — CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

In many cases, a customer has simply forgotten that a work or personal VPN is running and will be instructed to disable it and try again. — Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

Havas was also instructed not to speak to the media and to have no contact with the elderly couple or Acton. — Henry J. Gomez, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

Josef Palermo, a Kennedy Center curator in charge of visual art programming who was laid off earlier this year, wrote in an Atlantic essay that he had been instructed to begin taking away artworks on view. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Director Florian Zeller instructed his cast, which included Patrick Schwarzenegger and Paul Dano, to individually step forward and receive applause during the ecstatic reception. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026

The judge ruled the city is authorized to address the nuisance conditions, either by boarding up buildings or demolishing them, and instructed Olive Park’s owners to reimburse the city for the work. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026

The next month, senior bank leaders and vice chairs were instructed by human resources not to enter positive feedback about Nallasivan’s performance in the evaluation system, according to the lawsuit. — Charlotte Observer, 31 Aug. 2026