Didactic Definition

dī-dăktĭk
adjective
Used or intended for teaching or instruction.
Webster's New World
Morally instructive, or intended to be so.
Webster's New World
Too much inclined to teach others; boringly pedantic or moralistic.
Webster's New World

(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

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noun

(archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

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Other Word Forms of Didactic

Noun

Singular:
didactic
Plural:
didactics

Origin of Didactic

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek didaktikos skillful in teaching from didaktos taught from didaskein didak- to teach, educate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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