educative

See also: éducative

English

Etymology

From educate +‎ -ive

Adjective

educative (comparative more educative, superlative most educative)

Serving to educate; educational.
- 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
  [Y]ou didn't need a jailor. she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This wasn't an animal to be controlled—it was an animal to be, at the most, educated. She admitted accordingly that she was educative—which Maggie was so aware that she herself inevitably wasn't; so it came round to being true that what she was most in charge of was his mere intelligence.

Synonyms

(Serving to educate): educational, instructive, didactic

Derived terms

Translations

educational

Dutch: educatief (nl)
French: éducatif (fr) m, éducative (fr) f
Japanese: 教育的な (kyōikuteki na)

Polish: wychowawczy (pl) m
Spanish: educativo (es)
Welsh: addysgiadol (cy)

Italian

Adjective

educative

feminine plural of educativo

Anagrams

educatevi

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