didactic
See also: didàctic
EnglishEdit
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/, /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
Audio (AU) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: di‧dac‧tic
AdjectiveEdit
didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)
- Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
- Synonyms: educative, instructive
- didactic poetry
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, 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 30956848:
- The finest didactic poem in any language.
- Excessively moralizing.
- (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate
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excessively moralizing
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teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application
NounEdit
didactic (plural didactics)
TranslationsEdit
treatise on teaching
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French didactique.
AdjectiveEdit
didactic m or n (feminine singular didactică, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of didactic
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indefinite | didactic | didactică | didactici | didactice | ||
definite | didacticul | didactica | didacticii | didacticele | |||
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indefinite | didactic | didactice | didactici | didactice | ||
definite | didacticului | didacticei | didacticilor | didacticelor |