Informative - English meaning

adjective

Readily engaging in informal talk.

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The driver was very chatty

adjective

Liking to talk a lot in a friendly, informal way

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A chatty letter/style

adjective

Willing, eager, or able to talk or impart information.

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Lew was a very communicative chap

adjective

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

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A didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice

adjective

Intended to teach, or to improve morals by teaching

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Children’s books possess a practical, didactic purpose – to instill a love for reading.

adjective

Providing moral or intellectual instruction.

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Edifying literature

verb

Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.

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Rachel had edified their childhood with frequent readings from belloc

adjective

Improving your mind

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Being left in a bar all afternoon with a load of football fans is not the most edifying of experien…

adjective

Relating to the provision of education.

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Educational institutions

adjective

Teaching something, or relating to education

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Traveling abroad will be an educational experience for her.

adjective

Relating to education

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An educational establishment/institution, boys and girls must have the same educational opportuniti…

adjective

Intended or serving to educate or enlighten; educational.

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A useful educative tool

adjective

Providing education

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Very few activities at this age have no educative value at all.

verb

Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.

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Christopher had not enlightened francis as to their relationship

adjective

Giving you more information and understanding of something

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That was a very enlightening programme., the instruction manual that came with my new computer wasn…

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Serving to explain something.

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Explanatory notes

adjective

Helping to make something clear or understandable

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An explanatory note

adjective

Concerned with what is actually the case.

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A mixture of comment and factual information

adjective

Based on facts

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A factual account, the newspaper account was factually incorrect.

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Characterized by casual conversation or reports about other people.

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His latest book is a gossipy memoir

adjective

Full of gossip (= conversation or reports about other people's private lives that might be unkind or not true)

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A gossipy letter, he told me a gossipy anecdote about the late princess., gossipy people, he dismis…

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Helping to clarify or explain something.

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It's been a very illuminating discussion

verb

Make (something) visible or bright by shining light on it; light up.

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A flash of lightning illuminated the house

adjective

Giving you new information about a subject or making it easier to understand

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She tells the story in illuminating detail.

adjective

Giving moral or intellectual benefit.

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A large, improving picture hung opposite

verb

Make or become better.

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Efforts to improve relations between the countries

verb

Present participle of improve

Usage examples:

He did a lot to improve conditions for factory workers., i thought the best way to improve my frenc…

adjective

Intended or used for teaching; educational.

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Instructional materials for the classroom

adjective

Useful and informative.

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It is instructive to compare the two projects

adjective

Giving useful or interesting information

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It would be instructive to follow up the opinion poll with another one after the election.

adjective

Full of news, especially of a personal kind.

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Susan's short, newsy letters

noun

Variant spelling of newsie.

adjective

Containing a lot of news that is personal or not very serious

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I got a nice, newsy email from marion.

adjective

Making interesting or significant information known, especially of a personal nature.

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A revealing radio interview

verb

Make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.

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Brenda was forced to reveal robbie's whereabouts

adjective

Showing more than is usual

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The dress code bans revealing clothing., the book provides a revealing glimpse of how the organizat…

adjective

Having a striking or revealing effect; significant.

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A telling argument against this theory

verb

Communicate information to someone in spoken or written words.

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I told her you were coming