🔄 Synonyms of "Instructive"
16 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| enlightening | Serving to enlighten. |
| didacticnoun | Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. |
| informative | Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information. |
| demonstrativenoun | (grammar) That specifies the thing or person referred to. |
| clarifyingnoun | Providing clarity; making clear. |
| expositive | That explains; expository |
| doctrinairenoun | A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility. |
| elucidative | Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate. |
| educationalnoun | Of, or relating to education. |
| expository | Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition. |
| didactical | didactic |
| explanatory | Intended to serve as an explanation. |
| illustrative | Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating. |
| interpretative | Marked by interpretation. |
| interpretive | Alternative form of interpretative. [Marked by interpretation.] |
| educative | Serving to educate; educational. |
↔️ Antonyms of "Instructive"
Words with the opposite meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| uninformative | lacking useful or interesting information |
| unenlightening | Not enlightening |
| uninstructive | Not instructive. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Instructive"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| educative | Serving to educate; educational. |
| didactic | Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. |
| informative | Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information. |
| enlightening | Serving to enlighten. |
| illustrative | Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating. |
| demonstrative | (grammar) That specifies the thing or person referred to. |
| didactical | didactic |
| expositive | That explains; expository |
| explanatory | Intended to serve as an explanation. |
| expository | Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition. |
| elucidative | Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate. |
| clarifyingverb | Providing clarity; making clear. |
| interpretative | Marked by interpretation. |
| educational | Of, or relating to education. |
| interpretive | Alternative form of interpretative. [Marked by interpretation.] |
| doctrinaire | Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality. |
| edifyingnoun | That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs. |
| informational | Designed to or able to impart information; possessing information. |
| instructional | Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching. |
| indicative | Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something. |
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