different between didactic vs syntactically

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

syntactic +? -ally

Adverb

syntactically (comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)

1. According to the rules of syntax.

   • Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.

   The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.

Related terms

• syntactic
• syntactical
• didactic
• grammatical

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