instructive
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in·struc·tive (in struk′tiv)
adjective
Etymology: ML instructivus
Related Forms:
- instructively in·struc′·tively adverb
- instructiveness in·struc′·tive·ness noun
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Modifying Another Word
- highly: It is, indeed, highly instructive to mark the progress of these two great literary institutes.
Infinitive complement
- compare: It is instructive to compare magnetic with electric fields.
Modifies a noun
- comparison: There is an instructive comparison to be made with what has been noticed by Labor.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: Visitor feedback from the Wellcome Wing has already proved instructive.
Preposition: in
- respect: The history of oil palm propagation by tissue culture is instructive in this respect.
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Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes peoplethinkof nothing but music and sensual matters Music is a treason to the country, a treason to our youth, and we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.
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