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didactic.

Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/daɪˈdæk.tɪk//dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
  1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

    didactic poetry
  2. Excessively moralizing.

  3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Where this word comes from

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.

noun/daɪˈdæk.tɪk//dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
  1. A treatise on teaching or education.

    archaic
Where this word comes from

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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