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instructive

/ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/

instructive adjective: conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

Adjective

instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)

  1. Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
    • Well, that was an instructive lesson.
    • Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much...2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times

Noun

instructive (plural instructives)

  1. A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

instructive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

instructive in Hindi

Conveying knowledge, information or instruction
शिक्षाप्रद śikṣāprad

instructive in Tamil

கட்டளையான, பயிற்றுவிக்கிற

instructive in Marathi

बोधप्रद

instructive in Urdu

کارآمد, مفید
More languagesFewer languages
instructive in Telugu
బోధనాత్మకం
instructive in Malayalam
അറിവുതരുന്ന, വിജ്ഞാനമായ, പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, പ്രബോധനം നല്കുന്ന
instructive in Kannada
ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ ಕೊಡುವ, ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಕೊಡುವ, ಕಲಿಸುವ, ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶಕ
instructive in Gujarati
બોધપ્રદ
instructive in Sanskrit
कल्य kalya

Examples of instructive in a sentence

  • An instructive example of a heterotic individual is ʽThe Toast of Botswana’.
  • These definitions delineate the main features of autotrophism versus heterotrophism but some supplementary points are instructive.
  • Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs.

All 20 example sentences with instructive

Synonyms of instructive

Forms of instructive

Adjective
comparativemore instructive
superlativemost instructive
Noun
pluralinstructives

Origin of instructive

From instruct + -ive.

Words formed from instructive

Phrases with instructive

Questions about instructive

What does instructive mean?
Instructive means conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
What is instructive in Hindi?
Instructive in Hindi is शिक्षाप्रद (śikṣāprad). See Instructive meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is instructive?
Instructive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce instructive?
Instructive is pronounced /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/.

Words near instructive in the dictionary

  1. instructional design
  2. instructionally
  3. instructionals
  4. instructionless
  5. instructions
  6. instructive
  7. instructive case
  8. instructive cases
  9. instructively
  10. instructiveness
  11. instructives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: instructive (page history and authors); instructive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); instructive (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); instructive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); instructive (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); instructive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); instructive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); instructive (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कल्य (Sanskrit) (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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