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instructive

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective instructive has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

instructivea. [Cf. F. instructif.].
     Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
    "In various talk the instructive hours they past."
    "The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

instructive, adj. tending to instruct; conveying a lesson; enlightening (found the experience instructive).

Derivative
instructively adv. instructiveness n.

THESAURUS

instructive

admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, commanding, communicative, compelling, consultative, consultatory, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictated, dictating, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary, hard and fast, helpful, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, illuminating, imperative, informational, informative, informing, initiatory, introductory, jussive, lecturing, mandating, mandatory, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, moralizing, obligating, official, peremptory, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, revealing, rubric, self-teaching, sententious, standard, statutory, teaching, tuitionary, warning

ROGET THESAURUS

instructive

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.

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