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单词 didactic
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Definition of didactic in English:

didactic

adjective dʌɪˈdaktɪkdɪˈdaktɪkdaɪˈdæktɪk
  • 1Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

    a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Few of our didactic programs are taught on an interdisciplinary basis with the other health sciences.
    • The clinical curriculum is intended to apply didactic content into the patient care setting and promote critical thinking.
    • Both clinical and didactic courses were taught primarily by pharmacy faculty, and rarely by medicine faculty.
    • With the exception perhaps of Tales of Burning Love, there are few contemporary novels with a wholly didactic religious purpose.
    • In West Africa, didactic tales and tales of magic with moral endings are very popular.
    • Leake used didactic approaches to teach the surveyors how to administer questionnaires and register oral responses.
    • Otherwise, I would have created only didactic films for educational television.
    • He is still as purposefully didactic as ever, using the genre of educational information posters to inform us of our own miseducation.
    • The Korean tale, thus, has a stronger didactic and moral character than similar tales.
    • The training consisted of didactic instruction and observation of live family therapy sessions.
    • This individual could provide much of the didactic instruction, but others should contribute to the training program.
    • A more didactic type of prose, designed to inform and convince, was practised by Arnold, Carlyle, Macaulay, and others.
    • One implication of the classical approach to moral education is that law has a didactic element.
    • He was greatly interested in teaching for its own sake, and his didactic skill found an outlet in a whole stream of books.
    • This type of orientation program accentuates clinical practice and includes limited didactic instruction.
    • The general lack of biographical and didactic information within the exhibition clouded these issues further.
    • The books written by Richardson and his followers accordingly became known as moral or didactic novels.
    • Thank you for a rewarding educational, didactic, competitive memorable week!
    • If the Reformation chorales were anything, they were didactic and homiletical.
    • Because of the public funding, there was a conservative style and often a moral or didactic message in the films that were made at the Film Board.
    Synonyms
    instructive, instructional, educational, educative, informative, informational, doctrinal, preceptive, teaching, pedagogic, academic, scholastic, tuitional
    edifying, improving, enlightening, illuminating, heuristic
    pedantic, moralistic, homiletic
    rare propaedeutic
    1. 1.1 In the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to appear patronizing.
      his tone ranged from didactic to backslapping
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
      • To my editorial consternation, he has no objection to being seen as didactic in his novels.
      • Those who like to be instructed may relish this part of the novel; others may find it annoyingly didactic.
      • It is history as it should be: entertaining without being glib, informative without being didactic.
      • Bad poetry, sure, but still poetry - a more loose-textured, less didactic literary form than the rant.
      • Robert Coles's sketch about his fifth-grade teacher is tiresomely didactic.
      • I concur with Gurney's approach: Jacki's competent focus is neither didactic nor moralising.
      • It is best to adopt a collaborative approach rather than a didactic or paternalistic manner.
      • Although the prose is clear and readable it is also assertive, didactic and sometimes patronising.
      • While these and other sociopolitical themes inform her writing, Hansen's books are not didactic.
      • The text sometimes verges on the didactic, but then you have to consider both the intended audience and the size.
      • He became more aggressive and personal, more didactic, more accusatory, more moralistic.
      • You could probably even sneak in your revolutionary politics without sounding didactic and patronizing.
      • When Welsh explores these themes too literally, the results can be overly didactic.
      • It's heavy stuff, but the idea-rich tale unfolds its philosophy in a way that manages to neatly skirt pedantic style and didactic tone.
      • She had an unpleasantly loud didactic voice.
      • This didactic approach towards teaching history has made people look at it as a pain rather than a joy.
      • In order not to sound too didactic or pedantic, the lecturer added anecdotes and personal comments.
      • His style was didactic, often patronising, and the jokes were thick-cut.
      • General education also has been described as overemphasizing rote instruction and didactic teaching.
      Synonyms
      learned, cerebral, bookish, pedagogic, donnish, highbrow, ivory-tower, pretentious, pompous

Derivatives

  • didactically

  • adverb dɪˈdaktɪklidʌɪˈdaktɪkli
    • It is emphasized that the teacher's role in the classroom is to facilitate discussion rather than to present philosophical ideas didactically.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘What we want to do is encourage the individual to think about their own personal circumstances rather than talking didactically to them,’ he states.
      • A deliberate disavowal of any attempt to ‘lay down didactically the principles’ of prose writing provides him with an excellent basis to do exactly that.
      • One significant feature common to all three series is a dramatically compelling (as opposed to a didactically plodding) struggle between good and evil.
      • Although I should also add here, we did use these models didactically, in that we were trying to investigate how the system functioned in relation to variations in these parameters.
  • didacticism

  • noun dʌɪˈdaktɪsɪz(ə)mdɪˈdaktɪsɪz(ə)m
    • The ultimate strength of this play is a trio of truly heartfelt performances that bring the text alive with enviable emotional intensity and avoids the pitfalls of melodrama, didacticism, and pathos.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘If Stevens is a didactic poet,’ writes Helen Vendler, ‘it is with a diffident didacticism.’
      • We love Coupland and his company of absurdist-observationists: insight without didacticism, humoured political commentary without a political stance.
      • Sayles has managed to create engaging, consistent films that confront social issues while avoiding preachiness or didacticism.
      • Spurlock is a funny, engaging presence and his film hides its didacticism within the easy comedy of his insane, dangerous experiment.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Greek didaktikos, from didaskein 'teach'.

Rhymes

anaphylactic, ataractic, autodidactic, chiropractic, climactic, galactic, lactic, prophylactic, syntactic, tactic
 
 

Definition of didactic in US English:

didactic

adjectivedīˈdaktikdaɪˈdæktɪk
  • 1Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

    a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the Reformation chorales were anything, they were didactic and homiletical.
    • This type of orientation program accentuates clinical practice and includes limited didactic instruction.
    • Thank you for a rewarding educational, didactic, competitive memorable week!
    • One implication of the classical approach to moral education is that law has a didactic element.
    • With the exception perhaps of Tales of Burning Love, there are few contemporary novels with a wholly didactic religious purpose.
    • Leake used didactic approaches to teach the surveyors how to administer questionnaires and register oral responses.
    • A more didactic type of prose, designed to inform and convince, was practised by Arnold, Carlyle, Macaulay, and others.
    • Because of the public funding, there was a conservative style and often a moral or didactic message in the films that were made at the Film Board.
    • The books written by Richardson and his followers accordingly became known as moral or didactic novels.
    • He was greatly interested in teaching for its own sake, and his didactic skill found an outlet in a whole stream of books.
    • The clinical curriculum is intended to apply didactic content into the patient care setting and promote critical thinking.
    • The Korean tale, thus, has a stronger didactic and moral character than similar tales.
    • Otherwise, I would have created only didactic films for educational television.
    • Few of our didactic programs are taught on an interdisciplinary basis with the other health sciences.
    • In West Africa, didactic tales and tales of magic with moral endings are very popular.
    • The general lack of biographical and didactic information within the exhibition clouded these issues further.
    • Both clinical and didactic courses were taught primarily by pharmacy faculty, and rarely by medicine faculty.
    • The training consisted of didactic instruction and observation of live family therapy sessions.
    • This individual could provide much of the didactic instruction, but others should contribute to the training program.
    • He is still as purposefully didactic as ever, using the genre of educational information posters to inform us of our own miseducation.
    Synonyms
    instructive, instructional, educational, educative, informative, informational, doctrinal, preceptive, teaching, pedagogic, academic, scholastic, tuitional
    1. 1.1 In the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way.
      slow-paced, didactic lecturing
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I concur with Gurney's approach: Jacki's competent focus is neither didactic nor moralising.
      • It's heavy stuff, but the idea-rich tale unfolds its philosophy in a way that manages to neatly skirt pedantic style and didactic tone.
      • In order not to sound too didactic or pedantic, the lecturer added anecdotes and personal comments.
      • She had an unpleasantly loud didactic voice.
      • While these and other sociopolitical themes inform her writing, Hansen's books are not didactic.
      • Those who like to be instructed may relish this part of the novel; others may find it annoyingly didactic.
      • General education also has been described as overemphasizing rote instruction and didactic teaching.
      • Although the prose is clear and readable it is also assertive, didactic and sometimes patronising.
      • Bad poetry, sure, but still poetry - a more loose-textured, less didactic literary form than the rant.
      • He became more aggressive and personal, more didactic, more accusatory, more moralistic.
      • You could probably even sneak in your revolutionary politics without sounding didactic and patronizing.
      • His style was didactic, often patronising, and the jokes were thick-cut.
      • But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
      • The text sometimes verges on the didactic, but then you have to consider both the intended audience and the size.
      • To my editorial consternation, he has no objection to being seen as didactic in his novels.
      • It is best to adopt a collaborative approach rather than a didactic or paternalistic manner.
      • This didactic approach towards teaching history has made people look at it as a pain rather than a joy.
      • Robert Coles's sketch about his fifth-grade teacher is tiresomely didactic.
      • It is history as it should be: entertaining without being glib, informative without being didactic.
      • When Welsh explores these themes too literally, the results can be overly didactic.
      Synonyms
      learned, cerebral, bookish, pedagogic, donnish, highbrow, ivory-tower, pretentious, pompous

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Greek didaktikos, from didaskein ‘teach’.

 
 
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