informative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

informative
    adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an
           enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an
           illuminating lecture" [syn: {enlightening},
           {informative}, {illuminating}] [ant: {unenlightening},
           {unilluminating}]
    2: serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn:
       {instructive}, {informative}] [ant: {uninstructive}]
    3: providing or conveying information [syn: {informative},
       {informatory}] [ant: {uninformative}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Informative \In*form"a*tive\, a.
   Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. --Dr. H. More.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "informative":
      advisory, autodidactic, coeducational, communicative, cultural,
      didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational,
      educative, elucidative, enlightening, exhortatory, explanatory,
      homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informational, informing,
      initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitory,
      preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, revealing, self-teaching,
      teaching, tuitionary

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