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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
informative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Hyperbole, perhaps, but this meeting of two of world football's traditionally strongest sides should none the less prove highly informative.
▪ Thesis titles in the earth sciences tend to be highly informative.
more
▪ Intuitive judgements of the kind listed above are undoubtedly more informative than gross judgements of abnormality.
▪ The officer, however respectful, was at first no more informative than anyone else had been.
▪ This is thoroughly enjoyable and could not be more informative.
▪ Ten minutes with Morgan was more informative than all the rest of his questioning put together.
▪ A long-term solution may be a radical reform of the Press Complaints Commission aimed at getting more informative, balanced reporting.
▪ Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
▪ To render this picture more informative, it is necessary to distinguish degrees and modes of participation.
most
▪ The copy is full of features and most informative on many relevant subjects.
▪ It is from this position that the features of the Gloucester and Cirencester pavements are most informative.
▪ Perhaps a Bok side against a Junior side would be most informative.
▪ I have always found it to be most informative, stimulating and interesting - a really excellent magazine.
very
▪ If you are using Lotus 1-2-3 and enter this function in a cell however you will not find the result very informative.
▪ Practical, very informative of course.
▪ Apart from being welcomed by the patient, such changes may also be very informative for staff.
▪ C S Collins An obvious enthusiast, with a strong sense of humour which did not detract from his very informative presentation.
▪ Careful observation of how the child manages pieces of solid food can be very informative.
▪ The final chapter where the current commercial applications of optical fiber technology are reviewed is very informative.
▪ This was a very informative, intelligent and thoughtful presentation, with slides which were mostly well chosen.
▪ It is very informative and I agree with all of the points raised.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jim found the library staff friendly and informative.
▪ The informative newsletter is published once every two months.
▪ The lecture was very informative and helpful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Informative

Informative \In*form"a*tive\, a. Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.
--Dr. H. More.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
informative

"instructive," late 14c., "formative, shaping, plastic," from Medieval Latin informativus, from Latin informatus, past participle of informare (see inform). Related: Informatively.

Wiktionary
informative

a. 1 Providing information; ''especially'', providing useful or interesting information. 2 (context in standards and specifications English) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.

WordNet
informative
  1. adj. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action" [syn: enlightening, instructive] [ant: unenlightening]

  2. serving to instruct of enlighten or inform [syn: instructive] [ant: uninstructive]

  3. providing or conveying information [syn: informatory] [ant: uninformative]

Usage examples of "informative".

My stay among the Deutsche proved most informative, if not always very pleasant.

Those cadavers which have been dissected have not been especially informative, though I am told preliminary examinations suggest that their neuromuscular systemology is unusually dense for a mammalian life-form.

Each one is a certified historical reenactor capable of providing you with hours of informative conversation.

Even if proponents of a religion are reasonably sure that their beliefs are true, and even if they think there are valid and conclusive arguments for their validity, their religious assertions still cannot be taken as informative utterances.

And she did so in a manner that was not only informative but amusing, especially when she recounted funny incidents which had happened to her when she was on promotion tours.

But he gave her his perceptions of it, perhaps more informative than political theory, and Alde listened gravely, her arms wrapped around her drawn-up knees.

The medical attache, in sum, feels tightly wound and badly underappreciated and is prepared in advance to be irritated by the item inside, which is merely a standard black entertainment cartridge, but is wholly unlabelled and not in any sort of colorful or informative or inviting cartridge-case, and has only another of these vapid U.

And if the Saint had anticipated anything, he had anticipated that the arrival of Rayt Marius in the role of an angel-faced harbinger of glad tidings would result in a certain amount of more or less informative backchat before the conversation became centered on prospective funerals.

There were informative (and rather breathless) items about National Library Week, the Summer Reading Program, the Junction County Bookmobile, and the new fund drive which had just commenced.

On this basis, the United States probably has the most secure cryptosystems and the most informative communications intelligence in the world.

Nevertheless, if it has been in the least informative to our Sovereign, or to any extent edifying in its plethora of bizarre minutiae and arcana, we will try to persuade ourself that our patience and forbearance and the drudging labors of our friar scribes have not entirely been a waste.

From then on Felix, who had acquired a tattered copy of the History and Practice of Aerostation, maintained a flow of conversation, largely informative, but interspersed with eager questions.

Did they present to him complex, obscure, and abstruse cases, perhaps something due to an enzyme deficiency isolated only last week, or a rare cranial nerve syndrome first described in l925, he should be informative and invaluable.

She is hypnotized by the surgery or treatment flicks, chewing slowly, nudging me with an informative elbow and a nod when a particularly smooth bit of scissor or saw work is goring its way across the screen.

Charcuterie class was informative and this old style was well suited to learning about galantines and ballottines and socles and pâtés, rillettes, sausage-making and aspic work.