different between ideational vs informative

English

Etymology

From ideation +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??e???n(?)l/

Adjective

ideational (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 61:

     An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its ideational content [transl. Vorstellungsinhalt], but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.

   • 2004, John P. Bartkowski, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men (page 42)

     Ideational culture, which Sorokin counterposes to the sensate, is generated through more ethereal forms of engagement with the world. Ideational culture also abounds in religious communities.

Derived terms

• ideationally
• ideational apraxis

English

Etymology

inform +? -ative

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?f??m?t?v/

Adjective

informative (comparative more informative, superlative most informative)

1. Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.

   Synonyms: informatory, instructive

   Antonym: uninformative

2. (in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.

   Antonym: normative

3. (obsolete) Formative; having power to form.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.f??.ma.tiv/

Adjective

informative

1. feminine singular of informatif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

informative

1. inflection of informativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

informative

1. feminine plural of informativo

Anagrams

• informatevi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.fo?r.ma??ti?.u?e/, [??fo?rmä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.for.ma?ti.ve/, [inf?rm??t?i?v?]

Adjective

?nf?rm?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nf?rm?t?vus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

informative

1. definite singular/plural of informativ

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

informative

1. definite singular/plural of informativ