Definitions for instructive
ɪnˈstrʌk tɪvin·struc·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. instructive, informativeadjective

   serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

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1. instructivenoun

   A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

2. instructiveadjective

   conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

   Well, that was an instructive lesson.

3. Etymology: instruct + -ive

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instructiveadjective

   Conveying knowledge.

   Etymology: from instruct; instructif, French.

   With variety of instructive expressions by speech man alone is endowed. William Holder.

   I would not laugh but in order to instruct; or if my mirth ceases to be instructive, it shall never cease to be innocent. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 179.

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1. instructive

   In grammar, the instructive case is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, and Turkish languages.

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1. instructive

   Instructive refers to something that serves to educate, teach or provide useful information or knowledge. This can include activities, experiences, books or even a person's advice or behavior. It is typically intended to guide, enlighten, or equip someone with a certain skill or understanding.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instructiveadjective

   conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. instructif.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of instructive in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of instructive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of instructive in a Sentence

1. Oswald Chambers:

   A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

2. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

   One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

3. Bennie Thompson:

   We've always talked to the brass or the people who would have been in charge on that day who are no longer with the Capitol Police, but we've not talked to the Capitol Police -- the people who were sprayed with bear spray, the people who were called the N-word, the people who were called traitors. They need to tell Homeland Security Committee what they experienced, we think Homeland Security Committee's instructive for the committee to hear, but also Homeland Security Committee sets the right tone for why Homeland Security Committee's so important that we do this work.

4. Mark Twain:

   I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

5. Susan Tierney:

   There may never have been something so instructive that happened to these grid operators.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=instructive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Instructive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=instructive
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructive
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/instructive