different between didactic vs instructive

English

Alternative forms

• didactick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from ???????? (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from ??????? (didásk?, “I teach, educate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-d?k?t?k, IPA^(key): /da??dæk.t?k/, /d??dæk.t?k/
• Hyphenation: di?dac?tic

Adjective

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

   Synonyms: educative, instructive
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

didactic (plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French didactique

Adjective

didactic m or n (feminine singular didactic?, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)

1. didactic

Declension

English

Etymology

From instruct +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?st??kt?v/

Adjective

instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)

1. Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

   Synonyms: didactic, educative, informative, informatory

Translations

Noun

instructive (plural instructives)

1. (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

Translations

French

Adjective

instructive

1. feminine singular of instructif