didactic
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to moralityInstructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
» Mistakes have great didactic value.
Meaning
3 sensesInstructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
didactic poetry
didaktisch
наста́вническийnastávničeskij, нравоучи́тельныйnravoučítelʹnyj, дидакти́ческийdidaktíčeskij
дидактичнийdydaktyčnyj
Excessively moralizing.
нравоучи́тельныйnravoučítelʹnyj, настави́тельныйnastavítelʹnyj, ме́нторскийméntorskij
instructive (especially excessively)
Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Examples
5 sentencesMistakes have great didactic value.
The person often talked in a didactic manner, so he was disliked by many of us.
The documentary is purely observational and critics say it avoids being didactic, helping to broaden its appeal.
Do you think children's cartoons should be didactic? Or just for fun?
"The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."
Translations
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Origin
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”),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.
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Forms
more didactic, most didactic| Comparative | more didactic Lesson |
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Synonyms
3 synonyms- instructive (especially excessively):didactical
Word family
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