Synonyms for instructive
ɪnˈstrʌk tɪvin·struc·tive

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1. instructive, informativeadjective

   serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

   Synonyms:
   informative, illuminating, enlightening, informatory

   Antonyms:
   uninstructive

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1. instructiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   edifying, didactic, preceptive, mentorial, propædeutic

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1. List of paraphrases for "instructive":

   informative, enlightening, illuminating, illustrative, sobering, insightful, revealing, useful, instructional, didactic

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1. Bennie Thompson:

   We've always talked to the brass or the people who would have been in charge on that day who are no longer with the Capitol Police, but we've not talked to the Capitol Police -- the people who were sprayed with bear spray, the people who were called the N-word, the people who were called traitors. They need to tell Homeland Security Committee what they experienced, we think Homeland Security Committee's instructive for the committee to hear, but also Homeland Security Committee sets the right tone for why Homeland Security Committee's so important that we do this work.

2. William Blake:

   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?

3. Oswald Chambers:

   A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

4. Sigmund Freud:

   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.

5. Robert Robins:

   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.