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

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

The role of being a therapist can readily keep the friend side out of the picture when needed or if so instructed. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

Having lost its safe haven and training camps in Afghanistan, the group sought to reconstitute them in cyberspace and, through the Internet, disseminated training manuals and instructed followers on how to carry out attacks. — Barak Mendelsohn, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2016

Verb

Cody instructed Figueroa to send her a text message memorializing his concerns and reasons for wanting to resign, the lawsuit said. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

Just 6 weeks later, MaineHealth instructed providers to tell patients the unit would be closing in December. — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

The deputy told him he was not allowed to call his lawyer at that moment and instructed him to step out of the vehicle, where cars continued to whiz by. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026

More than 150,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation centres, the disaster management agency said. — CNN Money, 28 July 2026

According to Balduchi, Ratkovich and his son were injured in the crash, and Ratkovich instructed his son to call police before getting out to exchange information with the other driver. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Despite federal laws requiring public notice before collecting data, CPSC officials quietly instructed hospitals to supply detailed, identifiable health records as part of a goal to bring 100 facilities into the network by the end of the year. — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 28 July 2026

The theorists instructed that no single person, institution, or government can fully control the narrative about our world; language is far too unstable, self-aware, and contradictory for that. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

At one point, the judge instructed court officers to allow the former Venezuelan leader additional time to confer with his attorney before being escorted from the room. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026