'Didactic' definitions:
Definition of 'didactic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Instructive (especially excessively) [syn: didactic, didactical]
Definition of 'Didactic'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- The finest didactic poem in any language. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]
- Syn: didactic. [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'Didactic'
From: GCIDE
- Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, n. A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'didactic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- authoritative,
- autodidactic,
- bardic,
- binding,
- bucolic,
- canonical,
- Castalian,
- 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,
- Homeric,
- homiletic,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- Hudibrastic,
- idyllic,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecturing,
- mandatory,
- mock-heroic,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- narrative,
- official,
- pastoral,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- 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,
- Theocritean,
- tuitionary,
- warning