didact

American  

[dahy-dakt] / ˈdaɪ dækt /

noun

1. a didactic person; one overinclined to instruct others.

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Etymology

Origin of didact

First recorded in 1950–55; probably back formation from didactic; autodidact

Example Sentences

Mungiu — a towering figure in the Romanian New Wave — is a tough, unsparing filmmaker, but he isn’t a scold or didact, the kind who delivers grindingly obvious life lessons about the horrors of other people.

From New York Times

Yet Butler was neither a pessimist nor a didact.

From New York Times

Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons.

From The New Yorker

“Cole had always been understood as an untrained genius, a self-taught didact,” said Ms. Dunbar, owner of the company Historic Design in Lexington, Va. “But considering his background, this training that gave him the basic tools he needed to start painting, it’s not surprising that he got involved in decorating his home. What is extremely revelatory about this is it shows how he integrated the two.”

From New York Times

I was the sort of didact who made a lot of mixtapes as a teenager.

From The Guardian