Didactic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Didactic is an adjective meaning Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
Meaning
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
More Meanings
- Excessively moralizing.
- (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
- (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.
Example Sentences
didactic poetry
The finest didactic poem in any language.
Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.
Word Forms
- didactick
- didactics
Synonyms for didactic
Depending on context, synonyms include educative, instructive, informative.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include instructive, informative, instruction, learning, education, instructional.
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