Didactic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Intended to instruct.
  • adj. Morally instructive.
  • adj. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • adj. Excessively moralizing.
  • adj. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
  • n. A treatise on teaching or education.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson.
  • adj. excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people.
  • n. A treatise on teaching or education.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fitted or intended for instruction; containing doctrines, precepts, principles, or rules; instructive; expository; edifying: as, a didactic treatise; didactic poetry.
  • Pertaining to instruction; of an edifying quality, character, or manner; used in or given to exposition: as, a didactic style; didactic methods; a didactic lecturer.
  • n. A treatise on education.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. instructive (especially excessively)
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