Complete Definition of "didactic"

English

from Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate

Pronunciation
dī-d�k�tĭk

Noun
en-noun

  1. archaic A treatise on teaching or education.

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  2. Excessively moralizing.
  3. Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Translations
instructive or...
French: didactique
Italian: didattico

Derived terms
didact
didactical
didactically
didacticism

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