didactic
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didactic
- /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/
- /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
Rhymes with -æktɪk
Where it comes from
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.
adjective more didactic · most didactic · didactick
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Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
didactic poetry
Similar: educative, instructive
- Excessively moralizing.
- Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
noun didactics · didactick
- A treatise on teaching or education.
Translations
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adj instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate
| Español | didáctico |
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| 中文 | 教学 jiàoxué |
| Português | didático |
| Français | didactique |
| Deutsch | didaktisch |
| Italiano | didattico, didascalico |
| Русский | наста́внический nastávničeskij, нравоучи́тельный nravoučítelʹnyj, дидакти́ческий didaktíčeskij, назида́тельный nazidátelʹnyj |
adj excessively moralizing
| Русский | нравоучи́тельный nravoučítelʹnyj, настави́тельный nastavítelʹnyj, ме́нторский méntorskij |
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adj teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application
| Français | livresque |
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title = {didactic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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