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Instructive vs Permissive - What's the difference?

instructive | permissive |

As adjectives the difference between instructive and permissive

is that instructive is conveying knowledge, information or instruction while permissive is giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient.

As a noun instructive

is a case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

instructive

English

(wikipedia)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
    • Well, that was an instructive lesson.

    Synonyms

    * informative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

    • permissive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient.

    • Anagrams

    * impressive ----