Associations to the word «Didactic»

Wiktionary

DIDACTIC, adjective. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
DIDACTIC, adjective. Excessively moralizing.
DIDACTIC, adjective. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
DIDACTIC, noun. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Dictionary definition

DIDACTIC, adjective. Instructive (especially excessively).

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke