What is another word for uninstructive?

Pronunciation: [ˌʌnɪnstɹˈʌktɪv] (IPA)

Uninstructive refers to something that fails to provide any useful knowledge or education. Therefore, some synonyms for uninstructive include unenlightening, uneducational, uninformative, unteachable, and uninteresting. Something that is unenlightening does not provide any new insights or perspectives, while something that is uneducational does not teach anything of value. Uninformative means lacking in facts or relevant information, while something that is unteachable cannot be learned from or is unable to be taught. Finally, something that is uninteresting is dull or boring, making it difficult to hold one's attention and learn from. All of these synonyms share the same concept of being incapable of adding value to one's knowledge base.

What are the hypernyms for Uninstructive?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for uninstructive?

The antonyms for the word "uninstructive" are a plethora of words that help to convey the opposite meaning. Instructional, informative, enlightening, educational, illuminating, instructive, and educational are some of the antonyms of uninstructive. These words signify that something is informative, helpful, and able to impart knowledge to the audience. The opposite meaning of uninstructive represents something that is dull, uninteresting, or unproductive. Therefore, antonyms of a word like "uninstructive" can be useful when trying to describe something that is the opposite of unstimulating or boring. Ultimately, choosing the right antonym can help you to communicate more effectively and express the intended meaning more clearly.

Usage examples for Uninstructive

The fault of the method is, that they do not instruct; so the breath is out of them before they are put aside; for the uninstructive are the humanly deficient: they remain with us like the tolerated old aristocracy, which may not govern, and is but socially seductive.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
It may not be uninstructive to give you the origin and nature of his influence with the Queen.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
The word is uninstructive: it does not frighten.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009

Famous quotes with Uninstructive

  • I had sampled several such brotherhoods, including the Rosey Cross and the Orange Lodge, during the period in which I examined the Supernatural and found it not merely uninstructive but damnably dull, its members possessing nothing in the way of individual imagination and a great need to seek confirmation in numbers for the merits of miserable little madnesses....Such people as a rule were lonely, confounded misfits, attempting to alter the surrounding evidence of Nature by inventing abstractions to explain why common facts were false and ordinary reality a poor illusion.
    Michael Moorcock
  • If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • John Ogilby, the well-known translator of Homer, was originally a dancing-master. He had apprenticed himself to that profession on finding himself reduced to depend upon his own resources, by the imprisonment of his father for debt in the King's Bench. Having succeeded in this pursuit, he was very soon able to release his father, which he did, very much to his credit, with the first money he procured. An accident, however, put an end to his dancing, and he was left again without any permanent means of subsistence. In these circumstances, the first thing he did was to open a small theatre in Dublin; but just when he had fairly established it, and had reason to hope that it would succeed, the rebellion of 1641 broke out, and not only swept away all his little property, but repeatedly put even his life in jeopardy. He at last found his way back to London, in a state of complete destitution: but, although he had never received any regular education, he had before this made a few attempts at verse-making, and in his extremity he bethought him of turning his talent in this way, which certainly was not great, to some account. He immediately commenced his studies, which he was enabled to pursue chiefly, it is said, through the liberal assistance of some members of the university of Cambridge; and although then considerably above forty years of age, he made such progress in Latin that he was soon considered in a condition to undertake a poetical translation of Virgil. This work was published in the year 1650. In a very few years a second edition of it was brought out with great pomp of typography and embellishments. Such was its success that the industrious and enterprising translator actually proceeded, although now in his fifty-fourth year, to commence the study of Greek, in order that he might match his version of the Æneid by others of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In due time both appeared; and Ogilby, who had in the meanwhile established himself a second time in Dublin in the management of a new theatre, was in the enjoyment of greater prosperity than ever, when, having unfortunately disposed of his Irish property, and returned to take up his residence in London, just before the great fire of 1666, he was left by that dreadful event once more entirely destitute. With unconquerable courage and perseverance, however, he set to work afresh with his translations and other literary enterprises; and was again so successful as to be eventually enabled to rebuild his house, which had been burned down, and to establish a printing-press; in the employment of which he took every opportunity of indulging that taste for splendid typography to which his first works had owed so much of their success. He was now also appointed cosmographer and geographic printer to Charles II.; and at last, at the age of seventy-six, terminated a life remarkable for its vicissitudes, and not uninstructive as an evidence both of the respectable proficiency in literature which may be acquired by those who begin their education late in life, and also of what may be done by a stout heart and indefatigable activity in repairing the worst injuries of fortune. Ogilby was no great poet, although his translations were very popular when they first appeared; but his Homer, we ought to mention, had the honour of being one of the first books that kindled the young imagination of Pope, who, however, in the preface to his own translation of the Iliad, describes the poetry of his predecessor and early favourite as "too mean for criticism."
    John Ogilby

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