English Explanatory Dictionary

didactic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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
  1. A treatise on teaching or education.

Pronunciation

dī-dăkˈtĭk /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/ /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/ en-au-didactic.ogg En-us-didactic.oga

Word forms

didactic more didactic most didactic didactick didactics

Etymology

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

Synonyms

educative instructive

Derived words

autodidactic autodidacticism didact didactical didactically didacticism didacticist didacticity didacticization didacticize didacticness didaction nondidactic undidactic
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