The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
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.
Wiktionary
adv. In an instructive manner.
WordNet
adv. in an informative manner [syn: informatively] [ant: uninformatively, uninformatively]
Usage examples of "instructively".
He came to the first dungeons and still he climbed, on past the torture chamber with its carefully preserved and instructively labeled instruments.
The gardens, which were laid out in groves and colonnades, were lit (as Lord Bridlington instructively informed her) by no fewer than thirty-seven thousand lamps, some of them suspended in graceful festoons between the pillars of the colonnades.