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didactic

/daɪˈdæk.tɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.74 in modern English

Syllables
di-dac-tic
IPA
/daɪˈdæk.tɪk/
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

adj

Excessively moralizing.

adj

Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

noun

A treatise on teaching or education.

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: didactique, διδακτικός

Usage

Inflected Forms

more didactic (comparative) most didactic (superlative) didactick (alternative) didactics (plural)

Derived Forms

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

Synonyms

educative instructive didactical

Rhymes With

tactic galactic chiropractic lactic climactic syntactic prophylactic anticlimactic stereotactic extragalactic phonotactic backtick

Questions

How do you pronounce didactic?
The recorded pronunciation is /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/.
What does didactic mean?
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
Where does didactic come from?
It is traced to French.

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