educative

Serving to educate; educational.

Adjective

  1. 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

more educative most educative

Derived

autoeducative educatively maleducative miseducative noneducative psychoeducative reeducative uneducative