Definition of Instructive

1. Adjective. Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform.


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

instructers
instructeth
instructible
instructing
instruction
instruction book
instruction execution
instruction manual
instruction set
instruction sets
instructional
instructional design
instructionals
instructionless
instructions
instructive
instructive case
instructive cases
instructive theory
instructively
instructiveness
instructives
instructological
instructology
instructor
instructors
instructorship
instructorships
instructour
instructress

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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