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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verb

The lawyer who filed the claim instructed Albert and Elva Juarez not to comment on it. — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

People are instructed to scan the QR link on the letter that will lead them to a list of available appointments to reschedule their test. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Now the authorities overseeing immigration courts have instructed them not to do so. — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026

Scientists instructed more than 72,000 middle-aged and older adults to wear sensors that tracked their nightly sleep for a week. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026

Colombia manager Hernan Dario Gomez had sternly instructed Sanchez to play clean and to avoid a potential red card. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 7 July 2026

Police repeatedly announced that the event had ended and instructed attendees to leave the area in an effort to de-escalate the situation. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

The couple then called the Sacramento SPCA, who instructed them to post a picture of the mushroom on an emergency mushroom and plant identification Facebook group of mycologists. — Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026

Reuters in April reported that Ghana’s Minerals Commission had instructed international miners, including AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont, and Zijin Mining to transition mining operations to local contractors by December 2026 or face sanctions. — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 8 July 2026