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Informative   /ɪnfˈɔrmətɪv/   Listen
Informative

adjective
1.
Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance.  Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating.  "An illuminating lecture"
2.
Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform.  Synonym: instructive.
3.
Providing or conveying information.  Synonym: informatory.






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"Informative" Quotes from Famous Books



... different course would correct much error. The Journal of Negro History for January has rendered a very great service by publishing the names and number of Negroes who have been members of their respective State Legislatures since the Civil War reconstruction. It was interesting and informative to note the names and numbers of members of our race ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... (Chapter VI), the commander has studied the operations required to carry it out. He therefore has gained a knowledge, which he did not then have, of how his action is to be carried out. He may now be able to compile a brief of these operations, applicable to all of them and therefore informative to all subordinate commanders. He may be able to say how, or even where and when, the effort of his force ...
— Sound Military Decision • U.s. Naval War College

... because it is a fact that almost all the vital informative literature that is produced at first hand sees the light in connection with clubs and associations—bodies that publish journals, "transactions" or "proceedings" for the especial purpose of printing ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick

... most, only a handful of persons to listen to a sound informative lecture, whereas seventy thousand persons will sit in a freezing rain to watch Cagle, of Southern California, or ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew

... undertaking. Rev. J.C.C. Newton's "Japan: Country, Court, and People"; Rev. Otis Cary's "Japan and Its Regeneration"; and Prof. J. Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan," call for special mention. All are excellent works, interesting, condensed, informative, and well-balanced. Had the last named come to hand much earlier it would have received frequent reference and quotation in the body of this volume, despite the fact that it sets forth an ideal rather than the ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... only exceedingly interesting, but of great informative value, for it gives to English readers a peep into the interior and private life of China such as has perhaps never before ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty



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