educative
Serving to educate; educational.
Adjective
- Serving to educate; educational.
- [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...
Synonyms: didactic educational instructive
Origin
Etymology tree English educate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English educative From educate + -ive.
Forms
Derived
autoeducative educatively maleducative miseducative noneducative psychoeducative reeducative uneducative