educative

See also: éducative

English

Etymology

From educate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

educative (comparative more educative, superlative most educative)

1. Serving to educate; educational.

   Synonyms: didactic, educational, instructive

   • 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 was not 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.

Derived terms

• autoeducative
• educatively
• maleducative
• miseducative
• noneducative
• psychoeducative
• reeducative
• uneducative

Translations

educational

Dutch: educatief (nl) French: éducatif (fr) m, éducative (fr) f Japanese: 教育的な (ja) (kyōikuteki na) Polish: wychowawczy (pl) m Portuguese: educativo (pt), educacional (pt), educador (pt) Romanian: educativ (ro) m or n Spanish: educativo (es) Welsh: addysgiadol (cy)

Italian

Adjective

educative

1. feminine plural of educativo

Anagrams

• educatevi