instructive

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Trying to get into step is interesting and instructive, and the novitiate, though hardly bearable at times, is better than sitting in the lonely guest-room.

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  1. adjective Conveying knowledge or information; enlightening.

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  • How can Fast Company continue to spark valuable, instructive, and important conversations among the members of this rapidly growing community? —  Conversation Agent
  • They will almost always find that the coverage produced by citizen journalists (they'll almost always mention the citizen journalists) was both valiant and instructive, and that the news-sharing platform used by said citjos, be it a blog or a podcast or, most recently, a Twitter feed, offers enticing answers to the question of Where Journalism Will Go from Here. —  CJR
  • The UK's experience in this regard could be instructive, as it has introduced a range of carbon taxes and levies, including on air travel. —  The Times of India
  • Examining the past is instructive, and I find it reassuring to know that society did not fall apart during the Depression. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • Your friendship, with which for many years you honoured me, was a friendship dearest to my soul: your conversation and your correspondence were at once highly entertaining and instructive--with what pleasure did I use to break up the seal! —  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
 

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  1. = French instructif = Provencal instructiu = Spanish Portuguese instructivo = Italian instruttivo, istruttivo, from Middle Latin as if *instructivus, from Latin instruere, past participle instructus, instruct: see instruct.
 

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/ɪnˈstrəktɪv/
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