instructive
Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
Adjective
- 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...
Synonyms: didactic educative informative informatory
Origin
Etymology tree English instruct Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English instructive From instruct + -ive.
Forms
Derived
bioinstructive instructive case instructively instructiveness misinstructive noninstructive preinstructive uninstructive
Noun
- A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.