Didactic
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, Didactical \Di*dac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to teach; akin to L. docere to teach: cf. F.
didactique. See {Docile}.]
1. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction;
preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as,
didactic essays. "Didactical writings." --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The finest didactic poem in any language.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
2. excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish
to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]
Syn: didactic.
[WordNet 1.5]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "didactic":
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative,
autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, cautionary,
coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, dictated,
directive, disciplinary, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, edifying,
educating, educational, educative, elegiac, enlightening, epic,
exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary,
hard and fast, heroic, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, idyllic,
illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory,
lecturing, mandatory, mock-heroic, monitorial, monitory, moral,
moralistic, moralizing, narrative, official, pastoral, poetic,
poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic,
poetlike, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript,
prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation,
remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, rhapsodic, rubric,
runic, sapphic, self-teaching, sententious, sermonizing, skaldic,
standard, statutory, teaching, teachy, tuitionary, warning
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