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didactic [dɪˈdæktɪk] adj
1. (Social Science / Education) intended to instruct, esp excessively 2. (Social Science / Education) morally instructive; improving 3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated [from Greek didaktikos skilled in teaching, from didaskein to teach] didactically adv didacticism n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
didactic adjective 1. instructive, educational, enlightening, moral, edifying, homiletic, preceptive In totalitarian societies, art exists solely for didactic purposes. Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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". 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. |
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