Useful vs. Informative — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Useful and Informative
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Useful
Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways
Aspirins are useful for headaches
Informative
Informative is anything that further educates someone e.x.
Useful
Having a beneficial use; serviceable
A useful kitchen gadget.
Informative
Serving to inform; providing or disclosing information; instructive.
Useful
Being of practical use
A useful job.
Useful members of society.
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Informative
Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.
Useful
Having a practical or beneficial use.
Informative
(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
Useful
Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
To what can I useful!
Informative
(obsolete) Formative; having power to form.
Useful
Being of use or service;
The girl felt motherly and useful
A useful job
A useful member of society
Informative
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.
Useful
Of great importance or use or service;
Useful information
Valuable advice
Informative
Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance;
An enlightening glimpse of government in action
Useful
Capable of being turned to use or account;
Useful applications of calculus
Informative
Serving to instruct of enlighten or inform
Useful
Having a useful function;
Utilitarian steel tables
Informative
Providing or conveying information
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