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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 [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
Adj.1.didactic - instructive (especially excessively)
instructive, informative - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

didactic
adjective
1. instructive, educational, enlightening, moral, edifying, homiletic, preceptive In totalitarian societies, art exists solely for didactic purposes.
2. pedantic, academic, formal, pompous, schoolmasterly, erudite, bookish, abstruse, moralizing, priggish, pedagogic He adopts a lofty, didactic tone when addressing women.
Translations
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] ADJ (= educational) → didáctico; (= moralistic) [tone] → moralizador
didactic [daɪˈdæktɪk] adjdidactique
didactic
adjdidaktisch
didactic [dɪˈdæktɪk] adj (frm) (educational) → didattico/a (pej) (person) → pedante


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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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