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Definition of didactic : 1. A treatise on teaching or education.
2. Alt. of Didactical

Synonyms:

pedantic, moral, diachronic, homiletic, educational, formal, informative, applied, expository, elementary, opinionated, advanced, single-minded, moralizing, sententious, graduate, preachy, loud, moralistic, violent, teach, rabid, vocal, curricular, instructive, didactical, academic, spirited

Usage examples:

• By degrees they become more definitely didactic, and at last allegorical moralising masters them as it does almost every other kind of poetry in the fourteenth century. - "A Short History of French Literature", George Saintsbury.
• That he did not meet with unqualified success was due, as we have seen, to his one- sided didactic tendency. - "The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany", Arthur F. J. Remy.
• The principal difficulty in your case, remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, lay in the fact of there being too much evidence. - "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.