educational
edu·ca·tional (-s̸hə nəl)
adjective
- relating to education
- giving instruction or information; educating an educational film
educational
modif.
Academic
scholastic, collegiate, pedagogical, didactic, instructional, institutional, school, tutorial, scholarly. Instructive
enlightening, educative, edifying, enriching; see cultural, informative.
Used with adjective complement
- cover: Our many other societies cover educational, cultural, political and recreational interests.
- meet: In an increasing number of instances, parents are finding that they have to meet educational, health and welfare expenses.
Modifies a noun
- establishment: We may give educational establishments 30 or 40 per cent reductions.
- attainment: A typical Key Outcome would be to improve levels of educational attainment.
- institution: Any educational institution is welcome to use this material.
- psychologist: Educational psychologists tell us that any activity which leads to a change in our behavior is ' learning ' .
- need: The term " special educational needs " is excised from Scots law.
- achievement: The Government Offices will be encouraging future bids aimed at raising levels of educational achievement.
Modifying Another Word
- purely: We were a purely educational body, we did not seek to become a ' party ' .
- highly: Monopoly, with its thrilling property-owning rules and objectives, is highly educational.
- very: The site visits to the Lurgan Fiber exhibition were also very educational.
- not: These magazines are there simply to sell advertising, they are profit generating publications not educational or philanthropic publications.
- then: If the scope of the job changes with attendant changes in its elements, then educational requirements should be reviewed.
- staggeringly: Close inspection of most outsourced government IT projects should provide a staggeringly educational example of what not to do.
Preposition: in
- nature: Software included in the BESD is educational in nature and available in the UK.
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
Browse dictionary entries near educational
- education IRA
- education
- educating
- educated
- educate
- educable
- educability
- educ
- .edu
- EDTA
- educational park
- educationalist
- educationally
- educationist
- educative
- educator
- educe
- educed
- educible
- educing
