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instructive

/ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/ adjective C1
  1. Conveying knowledge, information or instruction. · Well, that was an instructive lesson.
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The room was in its normal state, and in it I passed an instructive quarter of an hour.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 82 · C1
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
Simple as it was, there were several most instructive points about it.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 79 · B2
Days, even months, passed by unheeded in one rapid and instructive course.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 172 · C1

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