informative
/ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv
/adjective
Providing useful or interesting information: a thought-provoking, informative article...
- The approach in this article was interesting and informative for people of all ages.
- New members are very welcome to join this very interesting and informative club.
- With a background such as this his lecture should be both interesting and informative.
Synonyms
instructive, instructional, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling, communicative, factual;
educational, educative, edifying, didactic, improving;
chatty, gossipy
informal newsy
Derivatives
informatively
/ adverb ...- Tod McAvoy also writes informatively from Japan.
- However, if we were to intelligently and informatively argue the point to the extreme, we would find it makes absolutely no sense.
- Valuable detail was added to the familiar image of Greene, who was placed informatively in a wider context.
informativeness
- The effect of cueing informativeness and the comparison of the effect of central and peripheral cueing were outside the scope of the research of Treisman and Prinzmetal et al.
- In the present study, we examined the effect of informativeness - namely, the effect of informative and uninformative cueing - in a typical visual search for features and their conjunctions.
- For maximum informativeness, each pedigree collected consisted of 4 grandparents, 2 parents, and 6-11 offspring.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'formative, giving life or shape'): from medieval Latin informativus, from Latin informare 'give form to, instruct' (see inform).