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DIDACTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does didactic mean?
• DIDACTIC (adjective)
The adjective DIDACTIC has 1 sense:
1. instructive (especially excessively)
Familiarity information: DIDACTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Instructive (especially excessively)
Synonyms:
didactic; didactical
Similar:
informative; instructive (serving to instruct or enlighten or inform)
Context examples
The principal difficulty in your case, remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, lay in the fact of there being too much evidence.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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