informing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of inform

adj

1. (archaic)informative; educational

   “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.”