29 September 2013

didactic

[dahy-dak-tik]
adjective

1. intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4. didactics, ( used with a singular verb ) the art or science of teaching.
Also, di·dac·ti·cal.

Origin:
1635–45; < Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt ( ós ) that may be taught + -ikos -ic

Related forms
di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
di·dac·ti·cism, noun
non·di·dac·tic, adjective
non·di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
un·di·dac·tic, adjective

Synonyms
2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.

Today’s aphorism

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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