didactic
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tɪk adjective
1.
intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3.
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4.
Also, di·dac·ti·cal.
Origin:
1635–45; < Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic
1635–45; < Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic
Related forms
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
Synonyms
2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.
2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.
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World English Dictionary
didactic (dɪˈdæktɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | intended to instruct, esp excessively |
| 2. | morally instructive; improving |
| 3. | (of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated |
| [C17: from Greek didaktikos skilled in teaching, from didaskein to teach] | |
| di'dactically | |
| —adv | |
| di'dacticism | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
didactic
1650s, from Fr. didactique, from Gk. didaktikos "apt at teaching," from didaktos "taught," from didaskein "teach," from PIE base *dens- "wisdom, to teach, learn." Related: Didactically; didacticism.
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Medical Dictionary
didactic di·dac·tic (dī-dāk'tĭk)
adj.
Of or relating to medical teaching by lectures or textbooks as distinguished from clinical demonstration with patients.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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didactic
of literature or other art, intended to convey instruction and information. The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite. Some literature, however, is both entertaining and consciously didactic, as, for example, proverbs and gnomic poetry. The word is from the Greek didaktikos, "apt at teaching."
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Example sentences
As a work of art, it seems contrived and didactic.
Better still, and unlike his more didactic colleagues, he has usually managed to be funny too.
She can afford to be less didactic, more charmingly candid, a little scattier.
Though more didactic, Huerta's story of a family's hitting the glass ceiling of upward mobility is quite powerful.
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