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instructive, adj. informative, informational, instructional, how-to, propaedeutic; educational, educative, academic, school; didactic, moralistic, homiletic, hom-iletical, Inf. preachy, doctrinal; cultural, humanistic, scientific, broadening, edifying, uplifting.
instructor, n. 1. teacher, trainer, coach; educator, pedagogue, educationist, Educ. methodologist; schoolteacher, schoolmaster, Chiefly Scot. dominie, schoolmistress, schoolmarm, instructress; professor, doctor, master, tutor, fellow, Brit, don, preceptor, lector, lecturer, Brit, reader; schoolman, scholastic, academician, academe, gownsman.
2. mentor, counselor, advisor; guide, cicerone, docent; explainer, explicator, expositor, expounder; interpreter, (in the Orient) dragoman; annotator, glosser.
3. indoctrinator, inculcator, informer, informant; demonstrator; exponent, propagator, propagandist, missionary, apostle; preacher, moralizer, sermonizer; mystagogue, catechist, catechizer, Hinduism, guru.
instrument, n. 1. tool, implement, utensil, appliance, apparatus; machine, automaton, robot; device, contrivance, invention, contraption, gadget; aid, convenience, time-saver, Archaic, conveniency.
2. agency, mechanism, instrumentality; means, way, ways and means, wherewithal; power, moving force, principle, elements; catalyst, mover, prime mover, cause, causer, effecter, Chem. reagent, Gram, causative; producer, doer, accomplisher, actor, executor, perpetrator.
3. legal document, paper, contract, compact, pact, concordat, cartel, written agreement; charter, muniment, deed, title, warrant, grant.
4. agent, intermediary, medium, middleman, go-between, broker, Chiefly Brit, factor, SI. ten percenter; assistant, aide, helper, girl Friday, right-hand man, SI. gopher; subordinate, deputy, acolyte, auxiliary, second; pawn, puppet, creature, jackal, cat's paw; flunky, lackey, handmaid, servant, minion; dummy, dupe, SI. stooge.
instrumental, adj. helpful, of help, assistant, of assistance, ministrant, ministerial; useful, of use, serviceable, of service, Obs. utile; contributory, contributive, accessory, ancillary, supportive; catalytic, causative, effective, effectual, efficacious; conducive, beneficial, advantageous, good for; valuable, important, significant, of prime importance, primary; necessary, essential, indispensable.
instrumentality, n. 1. helpfulness, helping hand, assistance, aid, ministry; conduciveness, contributive-ness, help, support, patronage, advocacy, backing; aegis, auspices, good offices.
2. usefulness, utility, serviceability, serviceableness; service, action, intervention, mediation, good word; effectiveness, effectuality, efficacy, efficaciousness, avail; power, influence, SI. pull, SI. clout, SI. drag; value, importance, significance, indispensibility, indis-pensibleness.
3. means, way, vehicle, expedient, wherewithal, resource; strategy, system, method, manner, mode, Latin, modus operandi; agency, instrument, device, mechanism, machine, machinery; catalyst, mover, prime mover, aide, help, stepping stone, way up the ladder; key, passkey, passport, way in, door opener, password, open sesame, magic words.
insubordinate, adj. 1. unsubordinate, defiant, rebellious; insurrectional, mutinous, revolting, seditious, insurgent, riotous, revolutionary; anarchistic, lawless.
2. disobedient, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomplying, uncompliant, noncompliant, noncooperative, uncooperative, nonconforming; cross-grained, perverse, contrary, froward, opposed, restive, balking, dissentient, recusant, resistant; stubborn, obstinate, pig-headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, wayward; intractable, unsubmissive, indocile, disorderly, unruly, bad; incorrigible, unmanageable, ungovernable, uncontrollable. -n. 3. rebel, insurrectional, upriser, mutineer, insurgent, rioter, revolutionary; dissenter, recusant, resistant, nonconformist; striker, picketer, protester, protest marcher.
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