didactic

[dahy-dak-tik] / daɪˈdæk tɪk /

ADJECTIVE

educational

Synonyms

WEAK

academic advisory donnish edifying enlightening exhortative expository homiletic hortative instructive moral moralizing pedagogic pedantic preachy preceptive schoolmasterist sermonic sermonizing teacherish teacherly teachy

Example Sentences

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“The Drama” has proven controversial and has been criticized as too thinly written by some viewers and critics who want answers and meaning laid out in legible, didactic lessons built into the script.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

We didn’t want to write a didactic book.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The star went on to admit that during that period of time she "might have got a little didactic about it."

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025

For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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