Instructive means "useful and informative." Say you're visiting Paris and looking for the Eiffel Tower when a friendly Parisian native helpfully stops to draw you a map. "Merci," you say. "This map is very instructive."

What does instructive mean mean?

adjective. serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening. Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate means by which.

What is an instructive sentence?

Meaning: [ɪn'strʌktɪv] adj. serving to instruct of enlighten or inform. (1) Thank you, that was very instructive. (2) The minister's visit to the prison was not instructive. (3) It was a most instructive day.