instructive

instructive

English

Etymology

From instruct +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/

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Adjective

instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)

1. Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

   Well, that was an instructive lesson.

   Synonyms: didactic, educative, informative, informatory

   • 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times‎:

     Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much more complicated than that.

Translations

Conveying knowledge, information or instruction

Bulgarian: инструктивен (bg) (instruktiven), поучителен (bg) (poučitelen) Catalan: instructiu (ca) Dutch: instructief (nl), leerrijk (nl), leerzaam (nl) Finnish: opettava (fi), opettavainen (fi) French: instructif (fr) German: lehrreich (de), aufschlussreich (de), belehrend (de) Italian: istruttivo (it), instruttivo (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: lærerik Nynorsk: lærerik Russian: поучи́тельный (ru) (poučítelʹnyj) Spanish: informativo, instructivo (es), aleccionador (es) Ukrainian: повча́льний (povčálʹnyj)

Noun

instructive (plural instructives)

1. (linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

Translations

Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action

Czech: instruktiv m Estonian: viisiütlev (et), instruktiiv (et) Finnish: instruktiivi (fi), keinonto (fi) French: instructif (fr) m German: Instruktiv m Russian: инструкти́вный паде́ж m (instruktívnyj padéž), инструкти́в (ru) m (instruktív)

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

instructive

1. feminine singular of instructif