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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
Adjective
informative or helpful
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.instructive - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
informative
informatory, informative - providing or conveying information
uninstructive - failing to instruct
instructive
adjective informative, revealing, useful, educational, helpful, illuminating, enlightening, instructional, cautionary, didactic, edifying
Translations
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] adj → instructivo
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] adj → instructif/ive
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] instruct adj → lehrreich;
(response) → aufschlussreich
instructive [ɪnˈstrʌktɪv] adj → istruttivo/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.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
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.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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