instructive
adjective
serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
uninstructive
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a word derived from
instructive.
Example Sentences
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It is not difficult, but will be found very entertaining and not uninstructive.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
He was fettered, however, by the prevailing calorific theories, and the unfortunate practice of grouping the phenomena into means for the seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, which grouping is arbitrary, and comparatively uninstructive.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
At least two-thirds of the congregation were American, who regard parental severity as cruelty to the young, and utterly uninstructive; and unquestioning obedience they hold to be calamitous and demoralising education.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
To say that a change takes time may be to say something about the event which is external and uninstructive.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Letters passed now and then, laggard and uninstructive as such letters must be, and they grew rarer and briefer as time went on.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow
