Hypertext Webster Gateway: "instructive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,
experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison.
In various talk the instructive hours they past.
--Pope.
-- {In*struct"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*struct"ive*ness}, n.
The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
instructive
adj 1: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform [syn: {informative}]
[ant: {uninstructive}]
2: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an
enlightening glimpse of government in action" [syn: {enlightening},
{informative}] [ant: {unenlightening}]
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