Didactic

Pronunciation

• enPR: dÄ«-dăkˈtÄ­k, IPA: /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/

Alternative forms

• didactick obsolete

Origin

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikos, "skilled in teaching"), from διδακτός (didaktos, "taught, learnt"), from διδάσκω (didaskō, "I teach, educate")

Full definition of didactic

Adjective

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
• MacaulayThe finest didactic poem in any language.
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived terms

• didact
• didactical
• didactically
• didacticism

Noun

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