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. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

2. 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.

3. John Dewey:

   Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

4. 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?

5. Maria Zakharova:

   It seems to me that our American colleagues should now be somewhat distracted from the instructive tonality that they have been spreading over the years in relation to other countries, take a look in the mirror and then describe everything that they saw there in statements, like those they addressed to many countries of the world, we presume that, in carrying out measures to curb looting and other illegal actions, the authorities should not violate the rights of Americans to peaceful protest.