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Restrictive vs Instructive - What's the difference?

restrictive | instructive |

As adjectives the difference between restrictive and instructive

is that restrictive is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds while instructive is conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

As a noun instructive is

(linguistics) a case in the finnish language it expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

restrictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

    • 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.