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instructional

instructional adjective: intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.

Adjective

instructional (comparative more instructional, superlative most instructional)

  1. Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.
    • The manual might have been instructional had anybody actually taken the time to read it.
  2. Relating to the teaching profession.
    • There are 33 instructional resignations tonight, double the amount at this time last year.

Noun

instructional (plural instructionals)

  1. A book, film, etc. intended to instruct.
    • On legitimate days off, during the summer, Klam received poolside instructionals in monied femininity from Marcia and her three sisters — “the Jewish Gang of Four.”2008 May 18, Ginia Bellafante, “Mommy’s Dearest”, in New York Times

instructional meaning in Bengali and Indonesian

instructional in Bengali

উপদেশমূলক, নির্দেশ সংক্রান্ত, আদেশ সংক্রান্ত

instructional in Indonesian

Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching
instruksional

Examples of instructional in a sentence

  • Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
  • An example of layer-cake federalism is recreation programs such as athletics or instructional programs.
  • Shovelware lacks the instructional strategies as well as the complete information needed to develop an adequate understanding.

All 16 example sentences with instructional

Forms of instructional

Adjective
comparativemore instructional
superlativemost instructional
Noun
pluralinstructionals

Origin of instructional

From instruction + -al.

Words formed from instructional

Questions about instructional

What does instructional mean?
Instructional means intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.
What is instructional in Bengali?
Instructional in Bengali is উপদেশমূলক, নির্দেশ সংক্রান্ত, আদেশ সংক্রান্ত. See Instructional meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is instructional?
Instructional can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near instructional in the dictionary

  1. instruction set
  2. instruction set architecture
  3. instruction sets
  4. instruction time
  5. instruction times
  6. instructional
  7. instructional design
  8. instructionally
  9. instructionals
  10. instructionless
  11. instructions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instructional (page history and authors); instructional (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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