instructive
Americanadjective
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serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
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Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate means by which.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- instructively adverb
- instructiveness noun
- noninstructive adjective
- noninstructively adverb
- noninstructiveness noun
- overinstructive adjective
- overinstructively adverb
- overinstructiveness noun
- uninstructive adjective
- uninstructively adverb
Etymology
Origin of instructive
Example Sentences
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An instructive Salon piece from a decade ago reveals the film’s designer dressed him to be “a young girl’s dream of a pop star.”
From Salon
As geopolitical tensions ratchet ever higher, it may be instructive to look at just how exposed U.S. markets are to foreign investors.
From MarketWatch
It’s a good definition for what novelists should do, but it’s hardly instructive.
“I don’t regard that as accidental and I do think it is instructive,” Redman says.
From Barron's
His valor is worth remembering on its merits, and the history is instructive about the threats now facing the U.S.
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