Didactic

Adjective

 * 1) Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
 * 2) Excessively moralizing.
 * 3) Conveying moral instruction.
 * 4) Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Noun

 * 1)  A treatise on teaching or education.

Adverbs for Didactic
tiresomely; tediously; wearisomely; monotonously; conceitedly; learnedly; instructively; endlessly; absurdly; egotistically; indefatigably; disagreeably; unpleasantly; ostentatiously; diffusely; preachily; sharply; academically; eruditely; expertly; bumptiously.

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
From διδακτικός: from διδακτός: from διδάσκω:

Derived terms

 * didact
 * didactical
 * didactically
 * didacticism

Adjective

 * Croatian:
 * Danish: didaktisk, belærende
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: didaktisk
 * Russian: наставнический, нравоучительный, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: didaktisk


 * Danish: didaktisk, docerende


 * Russian: нравоучительный


 * French: livresque