didactic
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Definition of didactic
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
“didactic poetry”
“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.”
“The finest didactic poem in any language.”
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adj
-
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
“didactic poetry”
“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.”
“The finest didactic poem in any language.”
- Excessively moralizing.
- Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
noun
- (archaic)A treatise on teaching or education.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
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