Initiative vs Instructive - What's the difference?
initiative | instructive |
A beginning; a first move.
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
The ability to act first or on one's own.
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
* John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
(linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
As nouns the difference between initiative and instructive
is that initiative is while instructive is (linguistics) a case in the finnish language it expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.As an adjective instructive is
conveying knowledge, information or instruction.initiative
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (issue to be voted on) direct initiativeDerived terms
* direct initiativeAdjective
(-)- The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
Antonyms
* noninitiativeExternal links
* * * ----instructive
English
(wikipedia)Adjective
(en adjective)- Well, that was an instructive lesson.