instructive, informative
(adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
Source: WordNet® 3.1
instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)
Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
• (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction): informative, educative, didactic
instructive (plural instructives)
(linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
Source: Wiktionary
In*struct"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. instructif.]
Definition: Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope.
– In*struct"ive*ly, adv.
– In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 January 2025
(verb) rise again; “His need for a meal resurged”; “The candidate resurged after leaving politics for several years”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
