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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of instructing

Burki also said when a holding room approaches capacity, an email is sent to field crews instructing them not to bring additional people in. — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

Lecornu gathered law enforcement officials and government ministers for the emergency meeting, instructing his minister to cancel planned trips until the crisis is sufficiently addressed. — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026

The city is also instructing developers to design 15% of the units for artist affordable housing. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

University police issued the shelter-in-place order earlier Sunday night, instructing people to close windows and doors, report anything unusual to police and await further directions. — Adam Bednar, Baltimore Sun, 28 Sep. 2026

State legislators passed a law that year instructing the DOC to assess a daily cost to every person behind bars. — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

The Justice Department sent letters to 29 states and the District of Columbia instructing election officials not to destroy the records. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

The company shared a video with reporters of someone sitting on a chair, instructing the computer with their voice in what appeared to be a seamless, albeit staged, interaction. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

Buckingham is also objecting to instructing on involuntary manslaughter. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 Aug. 2026