Instructive

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Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. In various talk the instructive hours they past. - Pope. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. - Boyle.

Adj.	1.	instructive - serving to instruct of enlighten or inform Synonyms: informative Antonyms: uninformative, uninstructive - not informative or enlightening
	2.	instructive - tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action" Synonyms: enlightening, informative

admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, commanding, communicative, compelling, consultative, consultatory, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictated, dictating, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary, hard and fast, helpful, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, illuminating, imperative, informational, informative, informing, initiatory, introductory, jussive, lecturing, mandating, mandatory, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, moralizing, obligating, official, peremptory, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, revealing, rubric, self-teaching, sententious, standard, statutory, teaching, tuitionary, warning

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