# belehrend

belehrend is a German adjective meaning “instructive”. Forms: belehrender, am belehrendsten.

## Forms

- Comparative: belehrender
- Superlative: am belehrendsten

## In other languages

- Русский: поучительный, наставительный, назидательный
- Українська: повчальний

## Meanings

1. instructive, instructional (serving to teach information, typically a specific lesson)
2. moralizing, patronizing, preachy (trying to instruct, often with a copmponent of morality, when doing so is regarded as disrespectful or arrogant)
   - Bei aller wünschenswerten politischen Gegenwartsnähe dürfe das Jugendbuch aber nicht von aufdringlichen politischen Tendenzen beherrscht sein. Auch sollten die Jugendbuchautoren einen allzu belehrenden Tonfall möglichst vermeiden. — For all that relevance to the political present is desirable, the book for adolescents should not be dominated by presumptuous political tendecies. Also, authors of such books should avoid a tone that is rather too moralizing, if possible.

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