didactic

Alternative formsEdit

• didactick (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”)

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA^(key): /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/

AdjectiveEdit

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
   • Macaulay

     The finest didactic poem in any language.

2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived termsEdit

• didact
• didactical
• didactically
• didacticism

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NounEdit

didactic (plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

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