What does informative mean?
Word: Informative
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Informative means giving useful facts or knowledge about something.
Synonyms: educational, enlightening, helpful
Antonyms: uninformative, unhelpful
How do you spell informative?
Syllables: in - for - ma - tive
Tricky part: The ending is ative, not itive or ive alone: informitive and informetive are wrong. There is one m.
Watch out for: informitive, informetive, imformative
Memory tip: A talkative friend and an informative book share an ending: ative, with an a before the t.
Informative in a sentence
Example 1: The documentary on tigers was informative and beautifully filmed.
Example 2: Grandpa's letters from the army are informative about life in the 1960s.
Example 3: Our project chart was short but informative.
Fun Fact
Inform once meant to give shape to something, from Latin informare, to form or shape. Giving someone facts was seen as shaping their mind.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to informative as used in the sentence:
The guide at the museum gave an informative talk about the Harappan seals.
a) lengthy
b) boring
c) confusing
d) instructive
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d) instructive. An informative talk teaches you something, and so does an instructive one.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The railway announcement was clear and mvoitnaefri, giving both the new platform and the length of the delay.
a) formative
b) imaginative
c) informative
d) innovative
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c) informative. Formative lacks an i and an n, imaginative needs a g and innovative has no f, so the eleven letters make informative.
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly and one is misspelt. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.
1. informative 2. persuasive 3. descriptive 4. narative
a) a story or an account of events
b) able to make people agree or believe something
c) giving useful facts or knowledge
d) saying what someone or something is like
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a) a story or an account of events. Narative needs a second r: narrative is nar-ra-tive.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our science teacher said the exhibition on coral reefs was so informative that she wanted the whole class to visit it again next wensday.
a) exhibition
b) informative
c) coral
d) wensday
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d) wensday. Wednesday keeps a silent d before the n, Wed-nes-day, even though you never hear it.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An informative poster about dengue would ____.
a) list the latest cricket scores
b) explain how to stop mosquito breeding
c) show only a cartoon with no words
d) advertise a new film at the cinema
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b) explain how to stop mosquito breeding
2. A visitor asks how to reach the station. Which reply is the most informative?
a) Take bus 12 and get off after four stops.
b) Many people go there every day.
c) It is quite near, just ask around.
d) You will find it easily enough.
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a) Take bus 12 and get off after four stops.
