informative
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- informatively adverb
- informativeness noun
- noninformative adjective
- noninformatively adverb
- noninformativeness noun
- uninformative adjective
- uninformatively adverb
Etymology
Origin of informative
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English: “formative,” from Medieval Latin infōrmātīvus, from Latin infōrmāt(us) “given form to” (past participle of infōrmāre “to give form to, instruct, shape”; inform 1 ) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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Despite the fact that the product used in the studies won’t be available in the U.S. anytime soon, Boehnke says the research is still informative for consumers.
"But no-one I've met through social media talking about baby loss has felt like it's scaremongering - it's felt informative, because sometimes you could help someone else realise some signs," she said.
From BBC
Fred Oswald, an industrial organizational psychologist and professor at Rice University who wasn’t involved in the work, said the findings were informative but reflect only general trends.
Meanwhile, SkinnyJab's video of its founder talking about weight loss injections was not an educational and informative resource, as the firm had argued, but was in fact an advert and subject to the ASA's regulations.
From BBC
Their reliability in reward-learning experiments allowed the research team to gather more stable and informative data.
From Science Daily
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