Synonyms for didactic
- adjective
Most common
educational instructive educative preachy moral pedagogical sententious teachy
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Instructive — instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality
instructive, educative, educational, preachy, informative, preceptive
Other
pedagogical, paedagogical UK, moral, directive, sententious, teachy, didactical, didactive
Definitions
- adj. 1
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
Related words
- Word family
- didact didactical didactically
Example sentences
- educational I know an educational psychologist and I hate her.
- instructive For me, Tatoeba is a nice and instructive pastime.
- preachy I find his preachy comments rather annoying.
- moral Moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| didactic | steady | |
| educational | falling | |
| instructive | steady | |
| educative | falling | |
| preachy | rising | |
| moral | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- moral2
- 6 letters
- teachy
- 7 letters
- preachy2
- 9 letters
- directive3, educative4, didactive
- 10 letters
- didactical, preceptive
- 11 letters
- educational5, informative4, pedagogical5, instructive3, sententious
- 12 letters
- paedagogical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moral2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- didactique
- Italiano
- didascalico