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# instructive

«instructive» in Mova's school dictionary: **teaching something useful; giving information or lessons…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more instructive, most instructive)

### meaning for a pupil

Instructive means teaching something useful; giving information or lessons that help you learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instructive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in lessons a text or trip that teaches a useful point; in tales a story that carries a moral

### examples

- The museum trip was very instructive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instructive/#x1)
- This book is instructive about frogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instructive/#x2)
- The story was thoughtful and instructive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instructive/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «instructive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instructive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.