1600-1700Greekdidaktikos, from didaskein ‘to teach’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a didactic priest
Kubrick made the movie with both didactic and creative intentions.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
And he is too morally didactic to enjoy, as a biographer must, the complexities and ambiguities of his subject.
And you can't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd, didactic behaviour.
However, the didactic goal usually does irreparable harm to the characterization of the dramatis personae.
The intellect, by the definition of consciousness, separates itself from the emotions; and didactic literature does the same.
The play is didactic in tone and ethical in nature.
These stories are more explicit and more didactic, probably because they are more self-consciously in-tended as correctives.
They range from the pornographic to the didactic style of Open University programmes.
This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young.
1speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a moral lesson: His novel has a didactic tone.2someone who is didactic is too eager to teach people things or give instructions—didactically /-kli/ adverb