instructive
serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate means by which.
Origin of instructive
1Other words from instructive
- in·struc·tive·ly, adverb
- in·struc·tive·ness, noun
- non·in·struc·tive, adjective
- non·in·struc·tive·ly, adverb
- non·in·struc·tive·ness, noun
- o·ver·in·struc·tive, adjective
- o·ver·in·struc·tive·ly, adverb
- o·ver·in·struc·tive·ness, noun
- un·in·struc·tive, adjective
- un·in·struc·tive·ly, adverb
Words Nearby instructive
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How to use instructive in a sentence
The data becomes even more interesting—and instructive—over time.
How Data from a Little Wrist Strap Can Change Your Life | Outside Editors | October 23, 2020 | Outside OnlineGoogle’s discussion of “relevance, distance and prominence” is instructive but still relatively opaque.
Google My Business and reviews gain in 2020 Local Ranking Factors survey | Greg Sterling | October 5, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe roots go back decades, but the past few months are instructive.
In structuring a participatory workplace health planning process, the experiences of hospital nurses are again instructive.
Why empowering frontline workers is a key element to a safe reopening | jakemeth | August 18, 2020 | FortuneFor Africa, a massive region of unrealized economic might, the past is particularly instructive.
If we want to transform African economies, we must look beyond relying on governments | K.Y. Amoako | August 6, 2020 | Quartz
A comparison of the Emanuel/Lewis contest with the 2016 presidential race is particularly instructive.
Thomson is one of those gifted writers who make any subject that they choose to pick up lively and instructive.
The Literature of Futbol: 11 Great Books About Soccer | Robert Birnbaum | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it is also incredibly moving and instructive to watch the inching towards social justice.
How Gay Marriage Was Won: Prop 8’s Destruction Captured In HBO Movie | Tim Teeman | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir lives are falling apart, but they intersect in interesting, tragic, and instructive ways.
Ted Thompson’s Debut Novel Features A 1 Percenter As Its Hero | Stefan Beck | May 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrançoise, the winemaker at Araujo at the time, was hugely instructive.
Very instructive here is the way in which children will voluntarily come and submit themselves to our discipline.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe naïve conception of sky and earth, and lastly the moral issue of the story, are no less instructive.
Children's Ways | James SullyAs it had columns for recording statistics of the fair for a period of years, it was instructive as well as ornamental.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowAs these accidents are at once instructive and picturesque, it is well to note certain of them in some detail.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerHis remarks upon the situation of the villages with Danish names are most interesting and instructive.
British Dictionary definitions for instructive
/ (ɪnˈstrʌktɪv) /
serving to instruct or enlighten; conveying information
Derived forms of instructive
- instructively, adverb
- instructiveness, noun
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