Antonyms of adj instructive

1 sense of instructive

Sense 1
instructive (vs. uninstructive), informative -- (serving to instruct or enlighten or inform)

uninstructive (vs. instructive) -- (failing to instruct)

Similarity of adj instructive

1 sense of instructive

Sense 1
instructive (vs. uninstructive), informative -- (serving to instruct or enlighten or inform)
       => clarifying, elucidative -- (that makes clear; "a clarifying example")
       => demonstrative, illustrative -- (serving to demonstrate)
       => didactic, didactical -- (instructive (especially excessively))
       => doctrinaire -- (stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability)
       => educative -- (resulting in education; "an educative experience")
       => educational -- (providing knowledge; "an educational film")
       => explanatory -- (serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory notes"; "an explanatory paragraph")
       => expository, expositive -- (serving to expound or set forth; "clean expository writing")
       => interpretative, interpretive -- (that provides interpretation)
       => ostensive -- (manifestly demonstrative)
       => preachy -- (inclined to or marked by tedious moralization)
          Also See-> informative#3, informatory#1

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