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Definition of instructive adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

instructive

adjective
 
/ɪnˈstrʌktɪv/
 
/ɪnˈstrʌktɪv/
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  1. giving a lot of useful information
    • It was a most instructive experience.
    • It is instructive to see how other countries are tackling the problem.
    Extra Examples
    • He said he had found the meeting ‘extremely instructive’.
    • It might be instructive to look a bit more closely at the data.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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