Any book will do as long as it is instructive.
Source: tatoeba (40501)
Instructive
//ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv//
Synonyms for "instructive" (89 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
30 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- инструктивен adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- поучителен adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Catalan
1 entries- instructiu adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Czech
1 entries- instruktiv noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
Dutch
3 entries- instructief adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- leerrijk adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- leerzaam adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Estonian
2 entries- instruktiiv noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
- viisiütlev noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
Finnish
4 entries- opettava adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- opettavainen adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- instruktiivi noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
- keinonto noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
French
2 entries- instructif adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- instructif noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
German
4 entries- aufschlussreich adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- belehrend adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- lehrreich adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- Instruktiv noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
Hungarian
1 entries- tanulságos adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Italian
2 entries- instruttivo adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- istruttivo adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lærerik adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lærerik adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Russian
3 entries- поучи́тельный adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- инструкти́в noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
- инструкти́вный паде́ж noun (Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action)
Spanish
2 entries- aleccionador adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
- instructivo adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Ukrainian
1 entries- повча́льний adj (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
None of the books are instructive.
Source: tatoeba (43927)
This book is interesting, also instructive.
Source: tatoeba (43932)
Not all of the books are instructive.
Source: tatoeba (43950)
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