Synonyms of instructed

instructed 1 of 2

adjective

as in informed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• informed
• trained
• skilled
• schooled
• briefed
• didactic
• professorial
• enlightened
• academical
• pedantic
• academic
• versed
• self-instructed
• didactical
• polished
• bookish
• well-bred
• self-taught
• learned
• homeschooled
• self-educated
• inkhorn
• cultivated
• refined
• educated
• cultured
• knowledgeable
• civilized
• highbrowed
• highbrow
• cerebral
• intellectual
• overeducated
• lettered
• literate
• erudite
• scholarly
• polymathic
• polyhistoric
• polymath
• well-read

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignorant
• unlearned
• illiterate
• uneducated
• benighted
• dark
• unlettered
• uncivilized
• uncultivated
• uncultured
• unscholarly
• semiliterate
• uninformed
• uninstructed
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unintellectual
• lowbrow
• untutored
• untaught
• unknowledgeable
• unschooled
• undereducated
• ill-bred

instructed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of instruct

1

as in taught

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field

spent his military career instructing young pilots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• taught
• educated
• trained
• schooled
• tutored
• indoctrinated
• coached
• prepared
• guided
• lectured
• informed
• lessoned
• mentored
• primed
• preached
• led
• drilled
• grounded
• directed
• qualified
• introduced
• briefed
• instilled
• inculcated
• versed
• showed
• initiated
• implanted
• familiarized
• enlightened
• fitted
• edified
• moralized
• retrained
• reared
• habilitated
• fit
• catechized
• homeschooled
• imparted (to)
• retaught
• reeducated
• reschooled

2

as in advised

to give information to

instructed everyone in the use of the new telephone system

Synonyms & Similar Words

• informed
• advised
• told
• briefed
• taught
• acquainted
• apprised
• versed
• educated
• familiarized
• enlightened
• notified
• alerted
• cleared
• caught up
• filled in
• let someone know
• convinced
• kept (someone) posted
• lectured
• hipped
• assured
• reassured
• clued (in)
• advertised
• wised (up)
• announced (to)
• disclosed (to)
• certified
• schooled
• tutored
• warranted
• disillusioned
• disenchanted
• disabused
• undeceived

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misled
• misinformed

3

as in told

to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority

the proctors instructed everyone to put their pencils down and hand in their tests

Synonyms & Similar Words

• told
• ordered
• asked
• commanded
• directed
• advised
• enjoined
• begged
• bade
• warned
• requested
• charged
• adjured
• appointed
• bid
• required
• petitioned
• compelled
• authorized
• forced
• assigned
• bossed (around)
• counselled
• entreated
• commissioned
• obliged
• beseeched
• besought
• managed
• supervised
• counseled
• led
• conducted
• controlled
• coerced
• constrained
• superintended
• oversaw

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• followed
• observed
• kept
• obeyed
• minded
• complied (with)