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INSTRUCTIVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

Synonyms:

informative; instructive

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

clarifying; elucidative (that makes clear)

demonstrative; illustrative (serving to demonstrate)

didactic; didactical (instructive (especially excessively))

doctrinaire (stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability)

educative (resulting in education)

educational (providing knowledge)

explanatory (serving or intended to explain or make clear)

expositive; expository (serving to expound or set forth)

interpretative; interpretive (that provides interpretation)

ostensive (manifestly demonstrative)

preachy (inclined to or marked by tedious moralization)

Also:

informative; informatory (providing or conveying information)

Antonym:

uninstructive (failing to instruct)

Derivation:

instruct (impart skills or knowledge to)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The latter is always instructive.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is an instructive case.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was in the year ’95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns, and it was during this time that the small but instructive adventure which I am about to relate befell us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)