Meanings
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adj
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
Didactic poetry.
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didactically
Derived forms
autodidacticautodidacticismdidactdidacticaldidacticallydidacticismdidacticistdidacticitydidacticizationdidacticizedidacticnessdidaction
Etymology
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.