Word Meanings - INSTRUCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: INSTRUCTIVE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSTRUCTIVE)

• Didactic
• Instructive
• directive
• moral
• Sentimental
• instructive
• romantic

Related words: (words related to INSTRUCTIVE)

• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• MORAL
  1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
• DIDACTICS
  The art or science of teaching.
• DIDACTIC
  A treatise on teaching or education. Milton.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• DIDACTIC; DIDACTICAL
  Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." Jer. Taylor. The finest didactic poem in any language. Macaulay.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• DIDACTICALLY
  In a didactic manner.
• MORALIZER
  One who moralizes.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• SENTIMENTALITY
  The quality or state of being sentimental.
• SENTIMENTALISM
  The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
• ROMANTICLY
  Romantically. Strype.
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• UNMORALIZED
  Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.
• IMMORALLY
  In an immoral manner; wickedly.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• IMMORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.
• DEMORALIZE
  To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example