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Didactic

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adjective. Intended to instruct.

adjective. Morally instructive.

adjective. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Fitted or intended for instruction; containing doctrines, precepts, principles, or rules; instructive; expository; edifying: as, a didactic treatise; didactic poetry.

Pertaining to instruction; of an edifying quality, character, or manner; used in or given to exposition: as, a didactic style; didactic methods; a didactic lecturer.

noun. A treatise on education.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adjective. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson.

adjective. excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people.

noun. A treatise on teaching or education.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adjective. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)

adjective. Excessively moralizing.

adjective. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

noun. A treatise on teaching or education.

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adjective. instructive (especially excessively)

Word Usage

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Equivalent

didactical informative instructive

Form

didact didactical didactically didacticism

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

anticlimactic chiropractic climactic extragalactic galactic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

allegorical argumentative autobiographical biographical declamatory

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

Alcaic Anacreontic Castalian Homeric Hudibrastic