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

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.

by BearCastle November 24, 2011

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

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.

by Relyt44 April 24, 2011