Instructive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
     Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,
     experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison.
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           In various talk the instructive hours they past.


                                                    --Pope.
     -- {In*struct"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*struct"ive*ness}, n.
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           The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  instructive
       adj 1: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform [syn: {informative}]
              [ant: {uninstructive}]
       2: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an
          enlightening glimpse of government in action" [syn: {enlightening},
           {informative}] [ant: {unenlightening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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