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didactic
/daɪˈdæktɪk/
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What does didactic mean?
adjective
- Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
- Excessively moralizing.
- Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.
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IPA pronunciation
/daɪˈdæktɪk/
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"Yes, I suppose we shall get used to them too," said Penelope, in response to this didactic consolation.
This third kind is taken entirely on the ground of play, and no visibly didactic element enters into it.
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The shallowness of a waternixie’s soul may have a charm until she becomes didactic.
"Nathan" is a didactic poem: it is not a mere philosophic treatise written in verse, like the fragments of Xenophanes.
She looked about the pale walls of her sitting-room, seeking counsel of ancestral daguerreotypes and didactic samplers; but they seemed to make utterance more difficult.