didactic
Syllables: di·dac·tic/daɪˈdæk.tɪk/
didactic adjective: instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
Adjective
didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)
- Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
- didactic poetry
- 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)
- Synonyms:
- educative, instructive
- Excessively moralizing.
- Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Noun
didactic (plural didactics)
didactic meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
didactic in Urdu
- تعلیمی
didactic in Bengali
- শিক্ষামূলক, নৈতিক শিক্ষা দেওয়ার উদ্দেশ্যপূর্ণ
didactic in Malayalam
- instructional, instructive, educational
- ധർമ്മോപദേശപരമായ, പ്രബോധകമായ, വിജ്ഞാനപ്രദമായ, പാഠങ്ങൾ നൽകുന്ന, ബോധനപരം, നിർദ്ദേശകം
didactic in Kannada
- ಕಲಿಕೆಯ, ನೀತಿಬೋಧಕ, ಉಪದೇಶಾತ್ಮಕ, ಶಿಕ್ಷಣಾತ್ಮಕ, ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯನ ರೀತಿಯ
More languagesFewer languages
- didactic in Gujarati
- શિખામણિયું śikhāmṇiyũ
- didactic in Persian
- تعلیمی ta'limi, آموزشی
Examples of didactic in a sentence
- Are we so intellectually trapped that only didactic philosophies are left?
- Some essays are coolheaded, some shake with hysteria, some are memoirish, others didactic.
- This evokes the medieval tradition of speculum-literature with its strong didactic slant.
Synonyms of didactic
Forms of didactic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more didactic |
| superlative | most didactic |
| alternative form | didactick |
| Noun | |
| plural | didactics |
Origin of didactic
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.
Words formed from didactic
Words that rhyme with didactic
- galactic
- prophylactic
- tactic
- lactic
- nongalactic
- phonotactic
- syntactic
- backtick
- chiropractic
- factic
- graphotactic
- nonprophylactic
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Questions about didactic
- What does didactic mean?
- Didactic means instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
- What is didactic in Urdu?
- Didactic in Urdu is تعلیمی. See Didactic meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is didactic?
- Didactic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce didactic?
- Didactic is pronounced /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/.
Words near didactic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: didactic (page history and authors); didactic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); didactic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); didactic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); didactic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); શિખામણિયું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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