as in instructive
providing useful information or knowledge
some Web sites for family vacation resorts are very informative and some are practically useless
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Recent Examples of informative
Provide informative answers, yes, but scaffold their thought processes too.
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Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
This is why regular, informative news stories are not going viral, but the aggressive, profane posts are.
—Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2025
Beer mentioned the set tours Petzold regularly holds ahead of production as informative for her performance and for the other actors’ roles, too.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Sometimes music is just to entertain, sometimes music is informative, sometimes music is emotional.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 May 2025
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Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
This is why regular, informative news stories are not going viral, but the aggressive, profane posts are.
—Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2025
Beer mentioned the set tours Petzold regularly holds ahead of production as informative for her performance and for the other actors’ roles, too.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Sometimes music is just to entertain, sometimes music is informative, sometimes music is emotional.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for informative
Recent Examples of Synonyms for informative
Adjective
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His legacy is instructive—and not just because Marco Rubio is the first person to serve simultaneously as secretary of State and national security advisor since Kissinger.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Last year, Hardeep Dhillon, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania, shared some research with me that is instructive in this current moment.—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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While apples-to-apples comparisons aren’t possible, a look at the streaming businesses is educative for identifying longer-term trends.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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The trend of clients seeking out educative experiences outside of the classroom continues to bubble, and this new epic pilgrimage is designed to celebrate the many life lessons Greek mythology presents while igniting children’s curiosity for the world through the ancient hero’s journey.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2024
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“Informative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/informative. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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