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didactic

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di·dac·tic  (d-dktk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-t-kl)
adj.
1. Intended to instruct.
2. Morally instructive.
3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.
[Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.]
di·dacti·cal·ly adv.
di·dacti·cism (-t-szm) n.
didactic
Adjective
intended to teach or instruct people: an Impressionist work can be as didactic in its way as a sermon [Greek didaktikos skilled in teaching]
didactically adv
didacticism n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.didactic - instructive (especially excessively)
didactical
instructive, informative - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
didactic
adjective 1. instructive, educational, enlightening, moral, edifying, homiletic, preceptive
adjective 2. pedantic, academic, formal, pompous, schoolmasterly, erudite, bookish, abstruse, moralizing, priggish, pedagogic
Translations
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] adj → didáctico
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] adj → didactique
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] adj → didaktisch
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] adj → didattico/a


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It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
The Hesiodic poems fall into two groups according as they are didactic (technical or gnomic) or genealogical: the first group centres round the "Works and Days", the second round the "Theogony".
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
He had already, in 1682, written a didactic poem, 'Religio Laici' (A Layman's Religion), in which he set forth his reasons for adhering to the English Church.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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