English-Thai Dictionary
instructive
ADJ ซึ่ง เป็นการ สั่งสอน ซึ่ง ให้ข่าวสาร ซึ่ง ให้ความรู้ informative educational uneducational uninstructive sueng-pen-kan-sang-son
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
INSTRUCTIVE
a.Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform. Affliction furnishes very instructive lessons.
INSTRUCTIVELY
adv. So as to afford instruction.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
INSTRUCTIVE
In *struct "ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. instructif. ]
Defn: Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In *struct "ive *ly, adv. -- In *struct "ive *ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.
New American Oxford Dictionary
instructive
in struc tive |inˈstrəktiv ɪnˈstrəktɪv | ▶adjective useful and informative: it is instructive to compare the two projects. DERIVATIVES in struc tive ly adverb, in struc tive ness noun
Oxford Dictionary
instructive
in ¦struct |ive |ɪnˈstrʌktɪv | ▶adjective useful and informative: it is instructive to compare the two projects. DERIVATIVES instructively adverb, instructiveness noun
American Oxford Thesaurus
instructive
instructive adjective the manual is not sufficiently instructive: informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, explanatory; educational, educative, edifying, didactic, pedagogic, heuristic; improving, moralistic, homiletic; useful, helpful.
Oxford Thesaurus
instructive
instructive adjective a recent study of cooperatives makes instructive reading: informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling; educational, educative, edifying, didactic, pedagogic, doctrinal, preceptive, improving, heuristic; moralistic, homiletic; useful, helpful; rare propaedeutic. ANTONYMS unenlightening.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
instructive
in struc tive /ɪnstrʌ́ktɪv /→instruct 形容詞 more ~; most ~(情報 知識の面で )ためになる, 役に立つ, 教育的な ▸ It is instructive to read this book .この本を読むのはためになる ~ly 副詞 教育的に, 有益に .~ness 名詞