didactic
pronunciation
How to pronounce didactic in British English:
UK [daɪˈdæktɪk]
How to pronounce didactic in American English:
US [daɪˈdæktɪk]
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- Adjective:
- instructive (especially excessively)
Word Origin
- didactic
- didactic: see doctor
- didactic (adj.)
- 1650s, from French didactique, from Greek didaktikos "apt at teaching," from didaktos "taught," past participle of didaskein "teach," from PIE root *dens- "wisdom, to teach, learn." Related: Didactically; didacticism.
Example
- 1. His speech to the new freshmen was painfully didactic .
- 2. Numbers with rhythm : a didactic proposal for pre-primary school .
- 3. Here they are used to greater didactic effect .
- 4. My next-door neighbor is a didactic old lady .
- 5. Didactic instruction modules ; energy saving and carbon reduction ; environmental education .