educationalEnglishOxford English Thesauruseducational adjective 1 an educational establishment: academic, scholastic, school, for study, learning, teaching, pedagogic, tuitional, instructional. 2 it was a very educational experience: instructive, instructional, educative, informative, informational, illuminating, pedagogic, doctrinal, preceptive, enlightening, edifying, improving, didactic, heuristic; pedantic, moralistic, homiletic; rare propaedeutic.educational Oxford Dictionary of English