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

That included publicly instructing police to use lethal force on criminals resisting arrest or attacking civilians. — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

But Hafley, whose background comes in instructing defensive backs, was OK with the risk taken. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

The doll was later displayed in the Warrens’ museum, with a warning on the case instructing visitors not to open it. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2026

However, her sister allegedly found a note in the victim’s residence instructing her to call her credit card company and explain Blake was her granddaughter and that she was authorized to use her card. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026

Inside were her cell phone, purse, medication, and a note instructing her mother what to do with the vehicle and all her belongings. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Biola University has been instructing students in film and television for a half century, but this week, the school just south of Los Angeles enters a whole new era. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

In the case of existing worms, the software is simply hard-coded to copy itself through computer networks or to spread by instructing infected computers to send emails containing copies of the malware. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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