didactic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
Meanings
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Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
didactic poetry
The finest didactic poem in any language.
1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Excessively moralizing.
- Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most didactic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more didactic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| didactick | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nondidactic · didacticist · didacticism · didacticization · didacticize · didactical · undidactic · didaction · autodidactic · didactically · didacticness · didact · didacticity · autodidacticism
Synonyms
Translations (52)
mk дидактичен (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · tr eğitici (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · no didaktisk (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · hy խրատական (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · be дыдактычны (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fr didactique (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · sh didàktičkī (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · da didaktisk (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · da docerende (excessively moralizing) · da belærende (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fi teoreettinen (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application) · sk didaktický (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru дидакти́ческий (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · tr eğitsel (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · it didascalico (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fr livresque (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application) · eo didaktika (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · pl dydaktyczny (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ca didàctic (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application) · de didaktisch (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · la didascalicum (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · da didaktisk (excessively moralizing) · tr didaktik (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · bg дидактичен (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fa آموزشی (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · tr öğretici (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application) · ru ме́нторский (excessively moralizing) · es didáctico (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fi opettavainen (excessively moralizing) · fi kasvattava (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru назида́тельный (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · gl didáctico (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · cs didaktický (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru наста́внический (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · pt didático (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fi opettavainen (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · cmn 教学 (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · it didattico (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · nl didactisch (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru нравоучи́тельный (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · uk дидактичний (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · tr öğretsel (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru нравоучи́тельный (excessively moralizing) · fa تعلیمی (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ru настави́тельный (excessively moralizing) · az ibrətli (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · ca didàctic (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · sv didaktisk (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · tr öğretici (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · af didakties (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · sh didaktičan (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate) · fi didaktinen (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)