Didactic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, Didactical \Di*dac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?,
     fr. ? to teach; akin to L. docere to teach: cf. F.
     didactique. See {Docile}.]
     1. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction;
        preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as,
        didactic essays. "Didactical writings." --Jer. Taylor.


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              The finest didactic poem in any language.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish
        to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]
  
     Syn: didactic.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, n.
     A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  didactic
       adj : instructive (especially excessively) [syn: {didactical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "didactic":
     Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
     Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative,
     autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, cautionary,
     coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, dictated,
     directive, disciplinary, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, edifying,
     educating, educational, educative, elegiac, enlightening, epic,
     exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary,
     hard and fast, heroic, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, idyllic,
     illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory,
     lecturing, mandatory, mock-heroic, monitorial, monitory, moral,
     moralistic, moralizing, narrative, official, pastoral, poetic,
     poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic,
     poetlike, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript,
     prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation,
     remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, rhapsodic, rubric,
     runic, sapphic, self-teaching, sententious, sermonizing, skaldic,
     standard, statutory, teaching, teachy, tuitionary, warning