'Instructive' definitions:
Definition of 'instructive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn: instructive, informative] [ant: uninstructive]
Definition of 'Instructive'
From: GCIDE
- Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.] Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- In various talk the instructive hours they past. --Pope. -- {In*struct"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*struct"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'instructive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Instructive'
- Instruct,
- Instructed,
- Instructer,
- Instructible,
- Instructing,
- Instruction,
- Instructional,
- Instructively,
- Instructiveness,
- instructable,
- instructions,
- Clinical instruction,
- book of instructions,
- catechetical instruction,
- course of instruction,
- instruction book,
- instruction execution,
- instruction manual,
- macro instruction,
- operating instructions,
- supervisor call instruction,
- complex instruction set computer,
- complex instruction set computing,
- million instructions per second,
- reduced instruction set computer,
- reduced instruction set computing