Didactic
[dɪ'dæktɪk;daɪ-] or [daɪ'dæktɪk]
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Didactical
(n.) A treatise on teaching or education.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Preceptive.
Inputed by Carmela
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Instructive, directive, moral
ANT:Unsound, misinstructive, erroneous, pernicious, misleading
Typed by Abe
Definition
adj. fitted or intended to teach: instructive: perceptive.—adv. Didac′tically.—n. Didac′ticism.—n.pl. Didactics the art or science of teaching.
Typist: Rosanna
Examples
- The shallowness of a waternixie's soul may have a charm until she becomes didactic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The principal difficulty in your case, remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, lay in the fact of there being too much evidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was sententious and didactic that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Rosanna