educative C1 Topic:Education & Learning US /ˈɛdʒəˌkeɪtɪv/ UK /ˈedjʊkətɪv/ See IPA manual Freq #122212 Meanings 1 adj serving to educate or produce intellectual and moral development Aristotle treats the state as an educative agency as well as a political institution. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · serving to educate or... educationalinstructiveformative More didactic ↔ Opposites miseducative Word family Derived forms educatively Related forms educateeducation Common collocations educative experience Adjective + noun Etymology Formed from educate + -ive. Educate comes from Latin educare, "to rear or train," related to educere, "to lead out." Topics Education & Learning External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # educative **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈɛdʒəˌkeɪtɪv/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈedjʊkətɪv/ **Frequency rank:** 122212 ## Meanings 1. serving to educate or produce intellectual and moral development ## Examples - Aristotle treats the state as an educative agency as well as a political institution. ## Synonyms - educational - instructive - formative - didactic ## Antonyms - miseducative ## Derived Forms - educatively ## Related Forms - educate - education ## Etymology Formed from educate + -ive. Educate comes from Latin educare, "to rear or train," related to educere, "to lead out." ## Topics - Education & Learning markdown