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educative

educative adjective: serving to educate; educational.

Adjective

educative (comparative more educative, superlative most educative)

  1. Serving to educate; educational.
    • [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...1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl

educative meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

educative in Bengali

শিক্ষামূলক, শিক্ষাদানে সহায়ক, জ্ঞানবর্ধক

educative in Malayalam

educational, instructive, instructional
വിദ്യാദായകമായ, ബോധനപരമായ, പ്രദീപക, അറിവുനൽകുന്ന, ഉദ്ബോധകമായ, നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of educative

Forms of educative

comparativemore educative
superlativemost educative

Origin of educative

From educate + -ive.

Words formed from educative

Questions about educative

What does educative mean?
Educative means serving to educate; educational.
What is educative in Bengali?
Educative in Bengali is শিক্ষামূলক, শিক্ষাদানে সহায়ক, জ্ঞানবর্ধক. See Educative meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is educative?
Educative is an adjective.

Words near educative in the dictionary

  1. educationist
  2. educationists
  3. educationless
  4. educationlike
  5. educations
  6. educative
  7. educatively
  8. educator
  9. educatorese
  10. educators
  11. educatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: educative (page history and authors); educative (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); educative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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