Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of inform
comparative more informing · superlative most informing
- archaicinformative; educational
1 more example
Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, and some that were informing; and even the captain, though he kept me at the stick’s end the most part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounto furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Spanish informante, informador
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Cite this entry
informing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/informing
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