Synonyms of instructing

instructing

verb

present participle of instruct

1

as in teaching

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field

spent his military career instructing young pilots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teaching
• educating
• indoctrinating
• training
• schooling
• tutoring
• guiding
• informing
• lecturing
• coaching
• preparing
• mentoring
• lessoning
• preaching
• directing
• catechizing
• instilling
• inculcating
• introducing
• priming
• grounding
• leading
• drilling
• familiarizing
• reeducating
• initiating
• implanting
• showing
• moralizing
• edifying
• retraining
• enlightening
• habilitating
• rearing
• qualifying
• versing
• briefing
• homeschooling
• reteaching
• fitting
• reschooling
• imparting (to)

2

as in informing

to give information to

instructed everyone in the use of the new telephone system

Synonyms & Similar Words

• informing
• advising
• telling
• teaching
• educating
• briefing
• familiarizing
• acquainting
• apprising
• notifying
• enlightening
• alerting
• versing
• clearing
• hipping
• filling in
• lecturing
• catching up
• advertising
• convincing
• assuring
• letting someone know
• keeping (someone) posted
• reassuring
• certifying
• cluing (in)
• clueing (in)
• wising (up)
• tutoring
• schooling
• warranting
• disabusing
• undeceiving
• disillusioning
• disclosing (to)
• disenchanting
• announcing (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misleading
• misinforming

• misleading
• misinforming

3

as in telling

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

• telling
• ordering
• asking
• commanding
• directing
• advising
• enjoining
• bidding
• begging
• warning
• requesting
• adjuring
• charging
• appointing
• petitioning
• requiring
• authorizing
• supervising
• entreating
• forcing
• beseeching
• assigning
• managing
• controlling
• bossing (around)
• coercing
• commissioning
• counseling
• leading
• obliging
• superintending
• overseeing
• conducting
• compelling
• counselling
• constraining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obeying
• observing
• following
• keeping
• minding
• complying (with)

• obeying
• observing
• following
• keeping
• minding
• complying (with)