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Definitions for instructive
ɪnˈstrʌk tɪvin·struc·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
instructive, informativeadjective
serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
Wiktionary
instructivenoun
A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
instructiveadjective
conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
Well, that was an instructive lesson.
Etymology: instruct + -ive
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
instructive
In grammar, the instructive case is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, and Turkish languages.
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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 Dictionary
Instructiveadjective
conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons
Etymology: [Cf. F. instructif.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of instructive in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of instructive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of instructive in a Sentence
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.
When we started going out into the field and collecting them and actually finding them in breeding condition or as dominant males, theyre stunningly beautiful, i think thats what the amateur community was keying in on. Theyre the ones detecting life color, and that was really instructive in determining this was a different species.
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.
Vladimir Putin kneels and Vladimir Putin says bigger and stronger and faster than Barney, and anyway, it was an instructive moment. Imagine that ? A president saying my dog is bigger than your dog. And really what it says is Vladimir's got a chip on Vladimir Putin shoulder because Vladimir Putin believes the demise of the Soviet was bad for the world.
There may never have been something so instructive that happened to these grid operators.
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