informational
English edit
Etymology edit
information + -al
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
informational (comparative more informational, superlative most informational)
- 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.
- 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
- This exercise gave students an insight into [...] how lexicographers work with unfamiliar lexis, and the informational sources that lexicographers use to construct dictionaries.