didactic

See also: didàctic

English

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Alternative forms

• didactick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA^(key): /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/, /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æktɪk
• Hyphenation: di‧dac‧tic

Adjective

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

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

   Synonyms: educative, instructive

   didactic poetry

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.

   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     The finest didactic poem in any language.

2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived terms

• autodidactic
• autodidacticism
• didact
• didactical
• didactically
• didacticism
• didacticist
• didacticity
• didacticization
• didacticize
• didacticness
• didaction
• nondidactic
• undidactic

Translations

instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate

Afrikaans: didakties Armenian: խրատական (hy) (xratakan) Azerbaijani: ibrətli Belarusian: дыдактычны (dydaktyčny) Bulgarian: дидактичен (bg) (didaktičen) Catalan: didàctic Chinese: Mandarin: 教学 (zh) (jiàoxué) Czech: didaktický Danish: didaktisk, belærende Dutch: didactisch (nl) Finnish: didaktinen (fi), opettavainen (fi), kasvattava (fi) French: didactique (fr) Galician: didáctico (gl) German: didaktisch (de) Italian: didattico (it), didascalico (it) m Latin: didascalicum Macedonian: дидактичен (didaktičen) Norwegian: didaktisk Persian: تعلیمی (fa) (ta'limi), آموزشی (fa) Polish: dydaktyczny (pl) Portuguese: didático (pt) Russian: наста́внический (ru) (nastávničeskij), нравоучи́тельный (ru) (nravoučítelʹnyj), дидакти́ческий (ru) (didaktíčeskij),, назида́тельный (ru) (nazidátelʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: didàktičkī (sh), didaktičan (sh) Slovak: didaktický Spanish: didáctico (es) Swedish: didaktisk (sv) Turkish: eğitici (tr), eğitsel (tr), didaktik (tr), öğretici (tr), öğretsel Ukrainian: дидактичний (dydaktyčnyj)

excessively moralizing

Danish: didaktisk, docerende Finnish: opettavainen (fi) Russian: нравоучи́тельный (ru) (nravoučítelʹnyj), настави́тельный (ru) (nastavítelʹnyj), ме́нторский (ru) (méntorskij)

teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application

Catalan: didàctic Finnish: teoreettinen (fi) French: livresque (fr) Turkish: öğretici (tr)

Noun

didactic (plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Translations

treatise on teaching

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French didactique.

Adjective

didactic m or n (feminine singular didactică, masculine plural didactici, feminine/neuter plural didactice)

1. didactic

Declension

Declension of didactic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	didactic		didactică		didactici	didactice
	definite	didacticul		didactica		didacticii	didacticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	didactic		didactice		didactici	didactice
	definite	didacticului		didacticei		didacticilor	didacticelor