didactic
intended to teach or moralize, sometimes excessively
Word origin: From Greek didaktikos, apt at teaching, from didaskein, to teach.
Didactic in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing didactic in a sentence.
The fable's didactic tone made its moral impossible to miss.
The play is so didactic that its characters seem to exist only to deliver the author's lessons.
Using “didactic” well
Didactic means intended to teach, but it often carries a critical edge, implying heavy-handed moralizing. The neutral sense survives in phrases like didactic literature; tone usually reveals which is meant.
More GRE words starting with D
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