Meaning

1 senses

  1. (archaic)A treatise on teaching or education.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Mistakes have great didactic value.

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  2. The person often talked in a didactic manner, so he was disliked by many of us.

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  3. The documentary is purely observational and critics say it avoids being didactic, helping to broaden its appeal.

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  4. Do you think children's cartoons should be didactic? Or just for fun?

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  5. "The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."

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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

plural: didactics

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dictatorshipdictiondictionaryA1didgeridoodidodieA2

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