informing
verbadjectiveattested in dialogue
informative; educational
verb
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Also a form of informpresent participle and gerund of inform
adjective
- 1
archaicinformative; educational
Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, and some that were informing; and even the captain, though he kept me at the stick’s end the most part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited.
Forms
- comparative
- more informing
- superlative
- most informing