| 单词 | informative |
| 释义 | informative (once / 10077 pages) adj Use the adjective informative to describe something that gives you some kind of useful information, like an informative book about identifying the mushrooms you find growing wild in the woods near your house. When something is informative, it's usually educational and full of facts — like an informative text book or an informative tour of the Hindu temples of northern India. If you learn a lot from something, you can call it informative. The Latin root of informative is the word informare, which means "to shape, train, instruct, or educate." Something that does those things for you is informative. WORD FAMILYinformative: informatively, uninformative+/inform: informant, information, informative, informatory, informed, informer, informing, informs, misinform/informant: informants/information: disinformation, informational, informations/informed: informedly, uninformed/informer: informers/misinform: misinformation, misinformed, misinforming, misinforms/misinformation: misinformations/uninformative: uninformatively USAGE EXAMPLESBut then, on August 11th, another blog entry appeared, this time explaining that “informative” posts would receive higher billing. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) They are, in a perfectly academic summation, “demoralizing but informative.” Slate(Dec 22, 2016) Even so, it defended industry-funded research as playing an important and informative role in scientific debate. New York Times(Sep 12, 2016) 1adj serving to instruct or enlighten or inform Syn|Ant instructive informatory providing or conveying information clarifying, elucidativethat makes clear demonstrative, illustrativeserving to demonstrate didactic, didacticalinstructive (especially excessively) doctrinairestubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability educativeresulting in education educationalproviding knowledge explanatoryserving or intended to explain or make clear expositive, expositoryserving to expound or set forth interpretative, interpretivethat provides interpretation ostensivemanifestly demonstrative preachyinclined to or marked by tedious moralization uninstructive failing to instruct 2adj tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance Syn|Ant enlightening, illuminating unenlightening, unilluminating failing to inform or clarify 3adj providing or conveying information Syn|Ant informatory advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive giving advice exemplifying, illustrativeclarifying by use of examples newsyfull of news revealing, telling, telltaledisclosing unintentionally instructiveserving to instruct or enlighten or inform uninformative lacking information newslessnot providing news or information |
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