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Definition of Instructive
1. Adjective. Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform.
Also: Informative, Informatory
Similar to: Clarifying, Elucidative, Demonstrative, Illustrative, Didactic, Didactical, Doctrinaire, Educative, Educational, Explanatory, Expositive, Expository, Interpretative, Interpretive, Ostensive, Preachy
Derivative terms: Inform, Instruct
Antonyms: Uninstructive
Definition of Instructive
1. a. Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.
Definition of Instructive
1. Adjective. conveying knowledge, information or instruction. ¹
2. Noun. (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Instructive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instructive
Literary usage of Instructive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1885)
"A few manual training schools have been established for the children of the more
fortunate classes of society, where the ideal of instructive employment, ..."
2. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"Instructive. 4. Play of children as seen by adults. 5. ... Instructive. 48.
Anecdote of a dog. 51. Two verses about a happy girl ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"While the report is very instructive on many individual features, it admits of
few general conclusions other than that we need much more extended ..."
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