instructive
/ɪnˈstrʌktɪv
/adjective
Useful and informative: it is instructive to compare the two projects...
- This book is deeply interesting to read while still being informative and instructive.
- That would give other failed institutions an encouraging and instructive example.
- It is instructive, for example, to visit a Vietnamese city, and experience how agreeable it is.
Synonyms
informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling;
educational, educative, edifying, didactic, pedagogic, doctrinal, preceptive, improving, heuristic;
moralistic, homiletic;
useful, helpful
rare propaedeutic
Derivatives
instructively
/ adverb ...- Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement.
- One could instructively contrast this plan with the traditional blitzkrieg tactic used up to this point.
- It becomes instructively frustrating to discover how many terms we take for granted in discussing ways of knowing, for which we have only visually oriented vocabulary.
instructiveness
- In this connection, the jamming situation is of crucial importance for the instructiveness of exercises.