didactic

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.

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.

Synonyms

instructive

preceptive

didactical

edifying

moral

preachy

preceptorial

didascalic

academic

protreptic

doctrinal

educative

instructional

Translations

didactique

didáctico

didattico

didaktisch

διδακτικός

didático

didàctic

dydaktyczny

öğretici

didaktik

didáctica

didática

livresque

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