didactic

1. 1.

   instructive (especially excessively)

   Synonymsdidactical

   Similarinstructive

Questions about didactic

What does didactic mean?

didactic means "instructive (especially excessively)".

How many syllables are in didactic?

didactic has 3 syllables: di-dac-tic. The stress falls on "dac". In IPA it is /daɪˈdæktɪk/.

What is another word for didactic?

Close synonyms include didactical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is didactic a common word?

didactic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.