"informative" meaning in English

See informative in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/ [Canada, General-American], [ɪnˈfɔɹməɾɪv] [Canada, General-American], /ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/ [General-Australian], [ɪnˈfoːməɾɪv] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-informative.ogg Forms: more informative [comparative], most informative [superlative]
Etymology: From inform + -ative. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|inform|ative}} 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), asiapitoinen (Finnish), informatiivinen (Finnish), instructif (French), informatif (French), ინფორმატიული (inpormaṭiuli) (Georgian), მაინფორმირებელი (mainpormirebeli) (Georgian), informativ (German), 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), informativ (Swedish), upplysande (Swedish), orienterande (Swedish), informerande (Swedish), інформати́вний (informatývnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. (in standards and specifications) 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
Derived forms: informatively, informativeness, informativity Related terms: inform, information, informational, informatory
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "informatively"
    },
    {
      "word": "informativeness"
    },
    {
      "word": "informativity"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inform",
        "3": "ative"
      },
      "expansion": "inform + -ative",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From inform + -ative.",
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    {
      "form": "more informative",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most informative",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "informative (comparative more informative, superlative most informative)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "inform"
    },
    {
      "word": "information"
    },
    {
      "word": "informational"
    },
    {
      "word": "informatory"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "uninformative"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "useful",
          "useful"
        ],
        [
          "interesting",
          "interesting"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "informatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "instructive"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "normative"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in standards and specifications"
      ]
    },
    {
      "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": "/ɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɪnˈfɔɹməɾɪv]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-informative.ogg",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɪnˈfoːməɾɪv]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔiḵbāriyy",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "إِخْبَارِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔiʕlāmiyy",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "إِعْلَامِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "informativen",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "информативен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "osvedomitelen",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "осведомителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "asiapitoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatiivinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "instructif"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "inpormaṭiuli",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "ინფორმატიული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mainpormirebeli",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "მაინფორმირებელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "eolasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "faisnéiseach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "īnfōrmātīvus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "bermaklumat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "lærerik"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "lærerik"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "âmuzande",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "آموزنده"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "pouczający"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informatywny"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "informator"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "informatívnyj",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "информати́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "upplysande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "orienterande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "informerande"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "informatývnyj",
      "sense": "providing useful or interesting information",
      "word": "інформати́вний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "informative"
}

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