Uninstructive

a. (UN-¹ 7.)

1666.  Boyle, Orig. Forms & Qual., II. vii. 369. That the present Discourse shall not be uninstructive to You.

1695.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. xx. § 18 (ed. 3), 123. Pain from captious uninstructive wrangling.

1764.  Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 15. 172. Facts less vague and uninstructive.

1839.  De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc., ii. 29. The sections near the Start Point are … particularly uninstructive.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 104. His character was remarkable, and his history not uninstructive.

  So Uninstructively adv.

1816.  Edin. Rev., Sept., 182. No great man has been … more uninstructively commended.