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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne