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Adjective: instructive  in'strúk-tiv
  1. Serving to instruct, enlighten or inform
    "They gave instructive music lessons to the children";
    - informative

See also: clarifying, demonstrative, didactic, didactical, doctrinaire, educational, educative, elucidative, explanatory, expositive, expository, illustrative, informative, informatory, interpretative, interpretive, ostensive, preachy

Antonym: uninstructive

Encyclopedia: Instructive