didactic — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

   Synonyms

   educativeinstructive

   Examples

   didactic poetry

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   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.

   The finest didactic poem in any language.

2. Excessively moralizing.

3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Noun

1. A treatise on teaching or education.

   Usage

   • Archaic

Adjective

1. instructive (especially excessively)

   Synonyms

   didactical