didactic

adj.
1. Intended to instruct or inform or inclined to moralize excessively. (e.g., a didactic story)

2. A word that is overused by English majors as a pretense to sound intellectual when they are actually stating an obvious and trivial fact.

"I liked the story, but it was a little too didactic for my taste."

by octechwriter September 25, 2007

defactorce

NOUN: a defacto divorce. Coined to fill a gap in the lexicon where defacto couples had to use the term 'break-up', which did not imply the full weight of the word 'divorce', despite the experiences being almost entirely identical.

Now that Adam and I are going through a defactorce, we have to open separate bank accounts and decide who gets to keep which whitegoods, not to mention custody of the cat.

by cvsanders August 6, 2010

didactile

didactile (noun); someone who is always telling everyone how it is. know-it-all.

Alvin was such a freakin' didactile he had no friends at all.

by sandspit July 31, 2007

deductlit

When a women produces 12 children at once.

Guy #1: hey dude how’s ya girl?
Guy #2: she’s ok I mean she just plopped our deductlits!!
Guy#1: ooh cool bro

by •••... April 7, 2019

Black Dynamite Deduction

Where one deduces a solution to a problem or mystery by taking one clue and bringing it to another in a long chain of paranoid connections until it leads to the conclusion. Named after the famous ''Anaconda Malt Liquor Conclusion Scene'' in Black Dynamite, where the titular character somehow realizes that Anaconda Malt liquor was the government's secret weapon after Bullhorn said "melt in your mouth", making several arbitrary connections until it led to the answer.

*Gasp* "Human being"? That word kind of sounds like "bean." Beans are legumes, "legumes" has the word "leg" in it. Ian's mom has really nice legs, and Ian's mom is so old she's practically dead, which can only mean one thing! Oh my Bieber! YOU'RE BECOMING A ZOMBIE!
--Anthony Padilla from Smosh using Black Dynamite Deduction to deduce that Ian Hecox is becoming a zombie

by The Logical Fallacy July 16, 2016

Didact

The Didact was a Forerunner Promethean, who held an extremely high status in the Forerunner society as supreme commander of the entire Forerunner military. He wholeheartedly believed in the "Mantle of Responsibility" the Forerunners held to protect life, and initially opposed the Halo Array as a sin beyond measure. He was also the lover and husband of the Librarian, and the one who eventually activated the Halo Array. Although he was abandoned in a Flood-infested system by the former Master Builder Faber, he lived on by implanting his consciousness within a young Builder known as Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting. He believed the Mantle of Responsibility should belong to the Forerunners alone and saw humanity as a threat rather than the successors that most other Forerunners saw them as.

Bornstellar Didact , UR Didact

by Mythic Pilot January 20, 2013

Deduct

To subtract from a total, as opposed to concrete items.

I deducted ten points from his total when it was revealed that he had participated while wearing sandals, clearly violating Rule 1.10B.

by Diggity Monkeez January 30, 2005