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instructive Definition

in·struc·tive (in struktiv)

adjective

serving to instruct; giving knowledge or information

Etymology: ML instructivus

instructive Related Forms
in·struc·tively adverb in·struc·tive·ness noun
instructive Synonyms

instructive

modif.

illuminating, enlightening, informative; see informative.

instructive Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: It is, indeed, highly instructive to mark the progress of these two great literary institutes.
  • particularly: The second of these cases is particularly instructive in the present context.
  • equally: It's equally instructive, however, to consider the event in the context of its host's career.
  • extremely: The negative contrast with the Irish case is extremely instructive here.
  • very: The story of the conjured city is very instructive here.
  • quite: Just to see this tiny piece of beach was quite instructive.

Infinitive complement

  • compare: It is instructive to compare magnetic with electric fields.
  • examine: Therefore, it is instructive to examine briefly the form of the rhetoric of accepted statements of human rights.
  • note: It is instructive to note the appearance of craters throughout the Lunar month.
  • consider: It will be instructive to consider some examples of this.
  • look: It's instructive to look at how they have been used.
  • see: It is instructive to see how the British Foreign Office website presents the Northern Ireland problem to the outside world.

Modifies a noun

  • comparison: There is an instructive comparison to be made with what has been noticed by Labor.
  • lesson: It is an instructive lesson in how software fixes for hardware problems may be counterproductive.
  • example: Many instructive case examples were cited by the House of Lords.
  • reading: They received over 700 responses which they published in a report entitled 'Your Shout ' which is instructive reading.
  • story: Elliot has a good and instructive story about a pilot he had met on an aircraft carrier.
  • text: Henry Phillips's instructive texts form the basis of the restoration planting scheme.

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.
instructive Quotes

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.

—Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah