instructive
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instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)
- Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
- Synonyms: didactic, educative, informative, informatory
- Well, that was an instructive lesson.
- 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much more complicated than that.
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Conveying knowledge, information or instruction
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instructive (plural instructives)
- (linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
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Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action
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instructive
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