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."

didactic by octechwriter September 25, 2007

didactic 

a speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a lesson

Usually whenever I do something wrong, my mom gives me a super long didactic speech! It gets pretty annoying after a while.

didactic by BearCastle November 24, 2011

didacticism 

-noun

dih-dakt-a-siz-uhm

1. A word commonly used to fill a gap in knowledge; often appearing in conversation that surpasses the intellectual ability of the speaker.

The true aesthetic moment hangs in suspension between pornography and didacticism.

didacticism by Relyt44 April 24, 2011

Dractical 

Dramatic and practical at the same moment

Dractical is when one of your friends is having a dramatic moment, but then responds with a practical or logical thought in the midst of their dramatic moment.

Dractical by Marvelous Miss M January 19, 2017