didactic
intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.
Origin of didactic
1- Also di·dac·ti·cal .
Other words for didactic
Other words from didactic
- di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- di·dac·ti·cism, noun
- non·di·dac·tic, adjective
- non·di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- un·di·dac·tic, adjective
Words Nearby didactic
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How to use didactic in a sentence
It seems to have captured the quality of independence and self-determination without being didactic that kind of caught people’s imagination.
Resurfacing ‘Life’s Swell,’ the Story That Produced ‘Blue Crush’ | jversteegh | November 4, 2021 | Outside OnlineInstead, “TV Buddha” appears in a gallery crowded with other pieces, busy with didactics.
So she has chosen the path as her literary heroes, Charles Dickens and George Orwell: the entertaining but didactic novel.
Join Caitlin Moran’s Riotous Feminist Revolution | Lizzie Crocker | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany schools seem to include both didactic sessions and practice sessions with simulated patients.
How One Doctor Mastered the Art of Delivering Life-Changing Diagnoses | Russell Saunders | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWill the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder?
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A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic.
Objectively Speaking: Stephanie LaCava’s ‘An Extraordinary Theory of Objects’ | Lauren Elkin | December 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTYour father hated didactic writings, hence this book had to be extremely playful ... I had to imagine him.
His plays are essentially didactic, being aimed at some weakness or iniquity of the social system.
In didactic poetry Lucretius was pre-eminent, and is regarded by Schlegel as the first of Roman poets in native genius.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordThis discussion is necessarily didactic and assertive for it is impossible to prove or disprove any of these postulates.
The Inhumanity of Socialism | Edward F. AdamsSome, as that of Sidi-Yusef-Hansali, are mild in their rites and of a purely didactic or religious nature.
With him the last spark of the didactic ideals of the Haskala has entirely vanished.
British Dictionary definitions for didactic
/ (dɪˈdæktɪk) /
intended to instruct, esp excessively
morally instructive; improving
(of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated
Origin of didactic
1Derived forms of didactic
- didactically, adverb
- didacticism, noun
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