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educational

ed·u·ca·tion·al

educational

 
 
pronunciation:
e j keI sh nl
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part of speech: adjective
definition 1: of or relating to education.
definition 2: tending to inform, instruct, or educate.
similar words:
didactic
Word Combinations  About this feature
(adj.)educational + noun accountability, achievement, activity, administrator, aspiration, assistance, attainment, background, benefit, component, consultant, context, counseling, curriculum, development, employment, enterprise, entertainment, environment, equity, establishment, evaluation, excellence, exhibit, expenditure, expense, experience, facility, funding, gain, goal, implication, improvement, initiative, innovation, institution, intervention, leadership, level, malpractice, material, mission, need, objective, opportunity, organization, outcome, outreach, personnel, philosophy, placement, planning, policy, practice, preparation, priority, process, professional, program, programming, progress, psychologist, psychology, publication, publisher, purpose, qualification, reform, requirement, research, researcher, resource, seminar, service, session, setting, software, specialist, standard, statistics, status, student, system, technology, testing, tool, toy, training, workshop [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: educationally (adv.)
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The word educational contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual Latin adjective-forming suffix that means pertaining to
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The suffix -al2, -ial attaches primarily to nouns (national , environmental ) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots (final , capital , comical ) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.