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Synonyms for instructive
ɪnˈstrʌk tɪvin·struc·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
instructive, informativeadjective
serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
Synonyms:
informative, illuminating, enlightening, informatoryAntonyms:
uninstructive
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
instructiveadjective
Synonyms:
edifying, didactic, preceptive, mentorial, propædeutic
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "instructive":
informative, enlightening, illuminating, illustrative, sobering, insightful, revealing, useful, instructional, didactic
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1412 | useful | |
#6339 | instructional | |
#8567 | informative | |
#13047 | revealing | |
#14663 | insightful | |
#22104 | illustrative | |
#27488 | illuminating | |
#32402 | enlightening | |
#32975 | instructive | |
#39846 | didactic | |
#48011 | sobering | |
#324149 | informatory |
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
When we started going out into the field and collecting them and actually finding them in breeding condition or as dominant males, theyre stunningly beautiful, i think thats what the amateur community was keying in on. Theyre the ones detecting life color, and that was really instructive in determining this was a different species.
These ratings often shift dramatically based on who controls the White House, with partisans more optimistic when their candidates are in power, but the shifts among independents are instructive and a clear warning sign for Democrats, who will need to show more progress to woo these voters back before the midterms.
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