Instructive
adjective
Something that gives a lot of information and teaches you something.
Her life story was an instructive example of how not to succeed in business.
Often appears as...
- instructive example
- instructive experience
adjective
Something that gives a lot of information and teaches you something.
Her life story was an instructive example of how not to succeed in business.
Often appears as...
- instructive example
- instructive experience
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Teaching Moments
Use 'instructive' when you gain knowledge from an event or situation.
The workshop was instructive, offering insights into effective communication.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Formal
'Instructive' is used in both formal and casual contexts to show learning.
Our casual chat turned out to be quite instructive for my research.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Instructive' can refer to learning from both good and bad examples.
His mistakes were instructive to the rest of the team.
Pro Tip 1/3Teaching Moments
Use 'instructive' when you gain knowledge from an event or situation.
The workshop was instructive, offering insights into effective communication.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Formal
'Instructive' is used in both formal and casual contexts to show learning.
Our casual chat turned out to be quite instructive for my research.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Instructive' can refer to learning from both good and bad examples.
His mistakes were instructive to the rest of the team.
Pro Tip 1/3Teaching Moments
Use 'instructive' when you gain knowledge from an event or situation.
The workshop was instructive, offering insights into effective communication.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Formal
'Instructive' is used in both formal and casual contexts to show learning.
Our casual chat turned out to be quite instructive for my research.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
'Instructive' can refer to learning from both good and bad examples.
His mistakes were instructive to the rest of the team.
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So, this is a very significant trend in the world today. China has become an empire of such mega cities. Each of which has almost a designated economic function in the global supply chain. And if you think about it, it's fascinating. It's very, very instructive
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we use to define the world and ourselves. When we think too highly of our thinking, when we think things are true just because we all say they're logos and stop adapting, we become the butt of jokes played on us by that wacky little trickster, chaos. Comedy conveys that destructive, instructive playfulness,
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Surveillance on and off...
the NSA's prism program what we don't think about are these sort of more subtle insidious technologies that infiltrate all different aspects of our daily lives how we live work and relate to one another and I think the trucker's scenario is really instructive in helping us to think through how those
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How to decarbonize the...
that produces fruits forever. He got the words right. He got the words right. Continuous improvement. There's a counterexample, which should be instructive as well. So you and I are both of an age where we remember the first oil embargo and the energy crisis that caused
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Mapping the Future of...
So, this is a very significant trend in the world today. China has become an empire of such mega cities. Each of which has almost a designated economic function in the global supply chain. And if you think about it, it's fascinating. It's very, very instructive
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Fredrik Bajer
Danish Writer
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
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Paul Klee
Swiss Artist
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.
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Porter Robinson
American Musician
I think it's important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there's an instructive element to what you're doing. And I think it's necessary to challenge people.
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Paula Hawkins
American Politician
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
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Robert Shea
American Author
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
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John Dewey
American Philosopher
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Eva Chen
Taiwanese Businesswoman
It's more instructive to learn what you don't like than just to like everything.
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George Clooney
American Actor
Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
TV news is not very instructive.
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Fredrik Bajer
Danish Writer
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
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Paul Klee
Swiss Artist
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.
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Porter Robinson
American Musician
I think it's important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there's an instructive element to what you're doing. And I think it's necessary to challenge people.
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Paula Hawkins
American Politician
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
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Robert Shea
American Author
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
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John Dewey
American Philosopher
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Eva Chen
Taiwanese Businesswoman
It's more instructive to learn what you don't like than just to like everything.
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George Clooney
American Actor
Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
TV news is not very instructive.
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