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instructive

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in·struc·tive  (n-strktv)
adj.
Conveying knowledge or information; enlightening.

in·structive·ly adv.
in·structive·ness n.

instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv]
adj
serving to instruct or enlighten; conveying information
instructively  adv
instructiveness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.instructive - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
informatory, informative - providing or conveying information
uninstructive - failing to instruct

instructive
adjective informative, revealing, useful, educational, helpful, illuminating, enlightening, instructional, cautionary, didactic, edifying an entertaining and instructive documentary
Translations
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] ADJ [experience] → instructivo
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] adjinstructif/ive
it is instructive to do sth → il est instructif de faire qch
It's instructive to compare his technique with Bennett's → Il est instructif de comparer sa technique à celle de Bennet.
instructive
adjinstruktiv, aufschlussreich; (= of educational value)lehrreich
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] adjistruttivo/a


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By the way," he added, turning over the paper to read the entertaining and instructive Fables, "I know the Heathenese lingo.
For if any one should render an account of what a primary substance is, he would render a more instructive account, and one more proper to the subject, by stating the species than by stating the genus.
He would have heard of channels and sandbanks, of natural features of the land useful for sea-marks, of villages and tribes and modes of barter and precautions to take: with the instructive tales about native chiefs dyed more or less blue, whose character for greediness, ferocity, or amiability must have been expounded to him with that capacity for vivid language which seems joined naturally to the shadiness of moral character and recklessness of disposition.
 
 
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