Didactic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIDACTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• A treatise on teaching or education.
ADJECTIVE:
• designed or intended to teach, also DIDACTICAL
• intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
• in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to appear patronizing
• intended to instruct
• Alt. of Didactical
• instructive (especially excessively)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• instructive

Words related to DIDACTIC

didactically21 didacticism19

Words that contain DIDACTIC

didactics15 didactical16 undidactic16 didacticism19 nondidactic17 autodidactic18 didactically21 didacticisms20 undidactically23 autodidacticism23

How to use DIDACTIC in a sentence

• We can see how needlessly they embarrass themselves who deny the name of fine art to any work whose theme is not beautiful, or which is not morally didactic.
• Brown, giving a nervous twitch to her yarn, and speaking in a sharp, hard, didactic voice, which made little Mrs.
• The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry.
• George Crabbe, the elder, possessed a few books, and used to read aloud to his family passages from Milton, Young, and other didactic poets of the eighteenth century.
• Drama is entirely confined, and the novel for the greater part, to the dressing up in adopted forms of didactic subject matter of the most general type.
• Any other attitude than this argues something less than genius, though genius may be far from didactic and not given to preaching.
• It is not, however, wholly didactic, but contains also touches of narrative and character that add to its interest.
• Manners are not morals, but I grow heavy and it does not become a seafaring man to be didactic.
• The insufficient respect for them is seen in didactic poetry.
• Considered as a didactic and descriptive poem, no lover of art who has ever read it, will cease to repeat it till he has got it by heart.
• It must suffice for the present to remark that his purpose had from the first been didactic.
• Perhaps the sober tone and didactic method of this treatise appealed more readily to the mood of the German than of the Italian reader.
• The work has been admitted by all modern critics to be the greatest of didactic poems.
• Moral as many of his pieces naturally are, we cannot call them didactic.
• Akenside and Armstrong excelled in didactic poetry.
• He wondered, that night before he went to bed, if he had been didactic to Lily Cardew.
• Symbol a more efficacious instrument of instruction than didactic language, 355-m.
• History, biography, poetry, tales, local descriptions, foreign correspondence, didactic essays, even the culinary art, by turns employed her versatile powers.
• It is didactic if we are worthy to be taught, not otherwise.
• It bears particularly on didactic literature though it has been as yet very ill studied from the comparative standpoint.
• More ingenious, more didactic, and altogether more meritorious than these is another series of designs belonging to the same period of time.
• The volume is frankly didactic, and Browning, as becomes a master who would make his lessons easy to children, teaches by parables and pictures.
• The didactic poem is and will be, in its best form, always but a piece of mechanism, or wooden figure, which has not the true life.
• Age must by this time have quenched his fire, and tamed his imagination, so that the didactic style would suit him best.
• Solemn, didactic, and sonorous, it lacked the variety and genial humor which had characterized Addison and Steele.
• With Vesalius disappeared the old didactic method of teaching anatomy.
• He abolished the old way of doing things on the platform, the didactic and the humdrum.
• It is didactic if we are worthy to be taught, no otherwise.
• Indian literature as a whole has a strong ethical and didactic flavour, yet the great philosophic and religious systems concern themselves little with ethics.
• Nearly every lesson has a moral clearly stated in formal didactic words at its close.

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