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instructive

[ in-struhk-tiv ]

adjective

  1. serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
  2. Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate means by which.


instructive

/ ɪnˈstrʌktɪv /

adjective

  1. serving to instruct or enlighten; conveying information
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • inˈstructively, adverb
  • inˈstructiveness, noun
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Other Words From

  • 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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of instructive1

First recorded in 1605–15; instruct + -ive
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Example Sentences

The data becomes even more interesting—and instructive—over time.

Google’s discussion of “relevance, distance and prominence” is instructive but still relatively opaque.

The roots go back decades, but the past few months are instructive.

From Ozy

In structuring a participatory workplace health planning process, the experiences of hospital nurses are again instructive.

From Fortune

For Africa, a massive region of unrealized economic might, the past is particularly instructive.

From 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.

But it is also incredibly moving and instructive to watch the inching towards social justice.

Their lives are falling apart, but they intersect in interesting, tragic, and instructive ways.

Françoise, 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.

The naïve conception of sky and earth, and lastly the moral issue of the story, are no less instructive.

As it had columns for recording statistics of the fair for a period of years, it was instructive as well as ornamental.

As these accidents are at once instructive and picturesque, it is well to note certain of them in some detail.

His remarks upon the situation of the villages with Danish names are most interesting and instructive.

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