didactic

Meaning

Adj

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Noun

A treatise on teaching or education.

Synonyms

instructive

preceptive

didactical

edifying

moral

preachy

preceptorial

didascalic

academic

protreptic

doctrinal

educative

instructional

Translations

didactique

didáctico

didattico

didaktisch

διδακτικός

didático

didàctic

öğretici

didaktik

didáctica

didática

livresque

Lehr…

Lern…

Pronounced as (IPA)

/daɪˈdæk.tɪk/

Etymology

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.