Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

educative

/ˌɛdʒɪkˈeɪtɪv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English

Syllables: ed-uca-tive
IPA: /ˌɛdʒɪkˈeɪtɪv/

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving to educate; educational.

Example Sentences

"[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 came round to being true that what she was most in charge of was his mere intelligence."

Etymology

Etymology tree English educate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English educative From educate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more educative (comparative) most educative (superlative)

Derived Forms

autoeducative educatively maleducative miseducative noneducative psychoeducative reeducative uneducative

Synonyms

didactic educational instructive

Rhymes With

native creative non-native vegetative probative nonnative

Questions

How do you pronounce educative?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɛdʒɪkˈeɪtɪv/.
What does educative mean?: Serving to educate; educational.
Where does educative come from?: Etymology tree English educate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English educative From educate + -ive.

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