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Promising vs Instructive - What's the difference?

promising | instructive |

As adjectives the difference between promising and instructive

is that promising is showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion while instructive is conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

As nouns the difference between promising and instructive

is that promising is the act of making a promise while instructive is (linguistics) a case in the finnish language it expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

As a verb promising

is .

promising

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a promise.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
    • So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".

    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.