Definitions for didactic

didactic di·dac·tic

Spelling: [dahy-dak-tik]
IPA: /daɪˈdæk tɪk/

Didactic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in didactic (accddiit).

Definitions for didactic

adjective

  1. intended for instruction; instructive:
  2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much:
  3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
  4. didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.

Origin of didactic

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

Examples for didactic

His genius should be less epic and didactic, than lyrical and popular.

He sat down and leaned forward, fixing me with a didactic finger.

didactic teaching has come at the expense of play, which some say is no longer tolerated even for the youngest of students.

Ours is a tale which has little that is new and less that is didactic.

However, I give you leave to be as dogmatic and didactic as you like in return.

Since the Puritans a didactic strain has continually appeared in our writers.

So she has chosen the path as her literary heroes, Charles Dickens and George Orwell: the entertaining but didactic novel.

When she performs in that way with her hands, you may swear she is didactic.'

Ethic on its didactic side is outside his business altogether.

They were too didactic; art should never be didactic; and what is life but an art?

Word Value for didactic
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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