Didactic means meant to teach, and often too obviously so. A didactic tone, didactic poetry, rather didactic.
Applied to a novel or a film it is usually a complaint, since the lesson is showing through the story. Of teaching method itself it is neutral and simply means instruction from the front.
1adjectivedidacticMeant to teach, often too obviously so.
“The play is powerful until the last act, where it turns didactic.”
didactic is a quality.
Greek didaktikos comes from didaskein, to teach.
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From didactique, from διδακτικός, from διδακτός (“taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (“to teach, educate”). by surface analysis, didact + -ic.
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