Word Meanings - INSTRUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.

Additional info about word: INSTRUCTION

1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command. "If my instructions may be your guide." Shak. Syn. -- Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSTRUCTION)

• Beck
• Nod
• sign
• signal
• symbol
• token
• indication
• authority
• orders
• instruction
• subserviency
• influence
• call
• command
• control
• mandate
• Behest
• Injunction
• commission
• requirement
• trust
• Breeding
• Nurture
• education
• training
• discipline
• manners
• air
• demeanor
• decorum
• Counsel
• Advice
• monition
• admonition
• warning
• recommendation
• Discipline
• Order
• strictness
• government
• drilling
• coercion
• punishment
• organization

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INSTRUCTION)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to INSTRUCTION)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• MONITION
  A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer. (more info) to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Admonish, Money, 1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
  The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.