instructive Add to list Share. 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. ... You would also be speaking Finnish, so the information would only be instructive to Finns.

Would be would be meaning?

: desiring, intending, professing, or having the potential to be a would-be actor.

How do you use instructive in a sentence?

(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. (4) It is instructive to see how other countries are tackling the problem.