educative

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.

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    Italian

    Adjective

    educative

    1. feminine plural of educativo

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