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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, commanding, communicative, compelling, consultative, consultatory, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictated, dictating, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary, hard and fast, helpful, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, illuminating, imperative, informational, informative, informing, initiatory, introductory, jussive, lecturing, mandating, mandatory, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, moralizing, obligating, official, peremptory, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, revealing, rubric, self-teaching, sententious, standard, statutory, teaching, tuitionary, warning
Dictionary Results for instructive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
instructive
    adj 1: serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn:
           instructive, informative] [ant: uninstructive]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
   Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,
   experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison.
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         In various talk the instructive hours they past.
                                                  --Pope.
   -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n.
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         The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
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