Synonyms of instructed

instructed 1 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
• led
• drilled
• grounded
• directed
• qualified
• introduced
• briefed
• instilled
• inculcated
• versed
• showed
• initiated
• implanted
• familiarized
• enlightened
• fitted
• edified
• moralized
• retrained
• reared
• habilitated
• fit
• 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
• bade
• warned
• requested
• charged
• adjured
• appointed
• bid
• required
• petitioned
• compelled
• authorized
• forced
• assigned
• bossed (around)
• counselled
• entreated
• commissioned
• obliged
• beseeched
• besought
• managed
• supervised
• counseled
• led
• conducted
• controlled
• coerced
• constrained
• superintended
• oversaw

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

instructed

2 of 2

adjective

as in informed

Related Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of instructed

Adjective

Liberty Gas, which provides gas services throughout Lexington, shut off gas lines citywide Wednesday night and instructed all residents to check pilot lights in their homes, city officials said. —Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2025

One group was instructed to cut calories by 80% on fasting days. —Sarah Garone, Health, 10 Apr. 2025

According to court documents, the child was at times left alone in the Texas property and instructed to look after various exotic animals. —Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025

If a player is running late, Vrabel instructed them to communicate. —Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025

Last week, in an email to facilities that offer black lung screenings for miners, a NIOSH official instructed participating facilities to halt submissions for black lung evaluation due to staffing cuts at the agency. —Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025

The reason Stabler is hospitalized in the first place appears to be a horrific, action movie-style car crash that occurred after he was instructed to go undercover. —Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025

You will be instructed on physical activity restrictions, diet and lifestyle changes, and what kinds of complications to watch for. —Josephine Hessert, Verywell Health, 9 Apr. 2025

Police said that on Sunday, March 30, the suspect brought the elderly woman to a bank and instructed her to withdraw money from her account. —Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025