adj
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Meanings
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adj
serving to educate or produce intellectual and moral development
Aristotle treats the state as an educative agency as well as a political institution.
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didactic
Opposites
miseducative
Etymology
Formed from educate + -ive. Educate comes from Latin educare, "to rear or train," related to educere, "to lead out."