Usually means: Teaches or imparts knowledge effectively.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Instructive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. instructive: Merriam-Webster
  2. instructive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instructive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instructive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instructive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instructive, instructive: Wordnik
  7. instructive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instructive: Wiktionary
  9. instructive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instructive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instructive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Instructive, instructive: Dictionary.com
  13. instructive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Instructive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. instructive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. instructive: Rhymezone
  17. Instructive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. instructive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. instructive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. instructive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. instructive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. instructive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. instructive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instructive: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instructive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (instructive)

▸ adjective:  Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

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didactical, educative, illustrative, informative, educational, interpretative, demonstrative, elucidative, doctrinaire, expositive, more...

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educational, informative, expository, illustrative, pedagogical, more...

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instructive case, morally instructive tale, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, present, bibliographic, naked

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Similar:
didactical, educative, illustrative, informative, educational, interpretative, demonstrative, elucidative, doctrinaire, expositive, more...

Types:
educational, informative, expository, illustrative, pedagogical, more...

Phrases:
instructive case, morally instructive tale, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, present, bibliographic, naked

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     teal, more...



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