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informational

adj
/ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃənəl/UK/ˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃənəl/CA/ˌɪnfəˈmæɪʃənəl/

Etymology

From information + -al.

  1. derived from īnfōrmātiō
  2. derived from information
  3. derived from informacioun
  4. inherited from enformacioun
  5. suffixed as informational — “information + al”

Definitions

  1. Designed to or able to impart information

    Designed to or able to impart information; possessing information.

    • The subway map was quite informational, allowing us to determine the most efficient route to our destination.
    • This exercise gave students an insight into [...] how lexicographers work with unfamiliar lexis, and the informational sources that lexicographers use to construct dictionaries.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for informational. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA