didactic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: di=dac=tic

OXFORD DICTIONARY

didactic, adj.
1 meant to instruct.
2 (of a person) tediously pedantic.

Derivative

didactically adv. didacticism n.

Etymology

Gk didaktikos f. didasko teach

THESAURUS

didactic

Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, 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, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, idyllic, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, mandatory, mock-heroic, monitorial, monitory, moral, moralistic, moralizing, narrative, official, pastoral, 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, tuitionary, warning

ROGET THESAURUS

didactic

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.