instructive

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 3.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

   Well, that was an instructive lesson.

2. noun A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

Similar words

educative didactic informative enlightening illustrative demonstrative didactical expositive explanatory expository

Often followed by

to and in for example as than that case

Word family

instruct instructed instructing instruction instructions instructively instructiveness instructivenesses instructor instructors