didactic

[ dahy-dak-tik ]
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adjective
  1. intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.

  2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.

  1. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

  2. didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.

Origin of didactic

1
First recorded in 1635–45; from Greek didaktikós “apt at teaching, instructive,” from didakt(ós) “that may be taught, teachable” (from didáskein “to teach”) + -ikos -ic
  • 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

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British Dictionary definitions for didactic

didactic

/ (dɪˈdæktɪk) /


adjective
  1. intended to instruct, esp excessively

  2. morally instructive; improving

  1. (of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated

Origin of didactic

1
C17: from Greek didaktikos skilled in teaching, from didaskein to teach

Derived forms of didactic

  • didactically, adverb
  • didacticism, noun

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