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Instructive

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Similar meaning 30

Clarifying 84% connected

of Clarify

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Clarifying 84% connected

of Clarify

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Demonstrative 84% connected

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.

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Demonstrative 84% connected

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.

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Didactic 84% connected

Alt. of Didactical

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Didactic 84% connected

Alt. of Didactical

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Didactical 84% connected

Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.

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Didactical 84% connected

Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.

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Doctrinaire 84% connected

One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of…

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Doctrinaire 84% connected

One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of…

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Educational 84% connected

Of or pertaining to education.

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Educational 84% connected

Of or pertaining to education.

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Educative 84% connected

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

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Educative 84% connected

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

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Elucidative 84% connected

Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.

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Elucidative 84% connected

Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.

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Explanatory 84% connected

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

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Explanatory 84% connected

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

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Expositive 84% connected

Serving to explain; expository.

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Expositive 84% connected

Serving to explain; expository.

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Expository 84% connected

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

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Expository 84% connected

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

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Illustrative 84% connected

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

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Illustrative 84% connected

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

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Interpretative 84% connected

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

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Interpretative 84% connected

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

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Interpretive 84% connected

Interpretative.

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Interpretive 84% connected

Interpretative.

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Ostensive 84% connected

Showing; exhibiting.

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Ostensive 84% connected

Showing; exhibiting.

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Derivationally related 2

Inform 74% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Inform 74% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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See also 4

Informative 66% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informative 66% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informatory 66% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Informatory 66% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Synonym 1

Informative 92% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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