"informative" meaning in English

See informative in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪnˈfoɹmətɪv/ [Canada, General-American], [-ɾɪv] [Canada, General-American], /ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/ [Australia], [-ɾɪv] [Australia] Audio: En-us-informative.ogg [General-American] Forms: more informative [comparative], most informative [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mətɪv Etymology: Etymology tree English inform Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English informative From inform + -ative. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|inform|-ative|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English inform Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English informative [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "forming adjectives", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-éh₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-eh₂tos", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "inline", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-ātos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ātus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ate", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "-ive", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-iHwós", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival suffix", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-wós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-īvus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-if", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-yf", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ive", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ative", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "informative", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="informative"> From inform + -ative. Head templates: {{en-adj}} informative (comparative more informative, superlative most informative)
  1. Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information. Synonyms: informatory, instructive Translations (providing useful or interesting information): إِخْبَارِيّ (ʔiḵbāriyy) [masculine] (Arabic), إِعْلَامِيّ (ʔiʕlāmiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), информативен (informativen) (Bulgarian), осведомителен (osvedomitelen) (Bulgarian), informatiu (Catalan), informatief (Dutch), asiapitoinen (Finnish), informatiivinen (Finnish), instructif (French), informatif (French), ინფორმატიული (inpormaṭiuli) (Georgian), მაინფორმირებელი (mainpormirebeli) (Georgian), informativ (German), शिक्षाप्रद (śikṣāprad) (Hindi), informatif (Indonesian), eolasach (Irish), faisnéiseach (Irish), informativo [masculine] (Italian), īnfōrmātīvus (Latin), informatif (Malay), bermaklumat (Malay), lærerik (Norwegian Bokmål), informativ (Norwegian Bokmål), lærerik (Norwegian Nynorsk), informativ (Norwegian Nynorsk), آموزنده (âmuzande) (Persian), pouczający (Polish), informatywny (Polish), informativ [masculine] (Romanian), informator [masculine] (Romanian), информати́вный (informatívnyj) (Russian), informativo (Spanish), informador (Spanish), informativ (Swedish), upplysande (Swedish), orienterande (Swedish), informerande (Swedish), інформати́вний (informatývnyj) (Ukrainian), معلومات افزا (mā'lūmāt-afzā) (Urdu)
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  2. Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
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  3. (obsolete) Formative; having power to form. Tags: obsolete
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: inform, information, informational, informatory

Alternative forms

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          "word": "uninformative"
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      ],
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        "Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information."
      ],
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          "information",
          "information"
        ],
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          "useful",
          "useful"
        ],
        [
          "interesting",
          "interesting"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "informatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "instructive"
        }
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "normative"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information."
      ],
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        [
          "standard",
          "standard"
        ],
        [
          "specification",
          "specification"
        ],
        [
          "specify",
          "specify"
        ],
        [
          "requirement",
          "requirement"
        ],
        [
          "merely",
          "merely"
        ],
        [
          "providing",
          "providing"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Formative; having power to form."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Formative",
          "formative"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Formative; having power to form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfoɹmətɪv/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ɾɪv]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ɾɪv]",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)mətɪv"
    }
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "ʔiḵbāriyy",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "إِخْبَارِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "ʔiʕlāmiyy",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "إِعْلَامِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "informativen",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "информативен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "osvedomitelen",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "осведомителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatief"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "asiapitoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatiivinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "instructif"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "inpormaṭiuli",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "ინფორმატიული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "mainpormirebeli",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "მაინფორმირებელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "śikṣāprad",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "शिक्षाप्रद"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "lang_code": "id",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "eolasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "faisnéiseach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "īnfōrmātīvus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "lang_code": "ms",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "lang_code": "ms",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "bermaklumat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "lærerik"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "lærerik"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "lang_code": "fa",
      "roman": "âmuzande",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "آموزنده"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "pouczający"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatywny"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informator"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "informatívnyj",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "информати́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "upplysande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "orienterande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informerande"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "informatývnyj",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "інформати́вний"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "lang_code": "ur",
      "roman": "mā'lūmāt-afzā",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "معلومات افزا"
    }
  ],
  "word": "informative"
}

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