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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
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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
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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
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Dilactisma

Jackie Chan knocked Bruce Lee out with a dilactisma.
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didacticism

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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
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