英语词汇“didactic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.

When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way.

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

didactic / pedantic

Both words relate to teaching, but didactic teaches a lesson and pedantic just shows off the facts.

Didactic describes anything that tries to teach a lesson, sometimes a moral one. People don't always want a lesson. Didactic comes from the Greek didaktikos for "apt at teaching." Although being didactic is perfect for a teacher, it can be annoying when movies and books get into teacher mode. See below:

"Being Here is tough to absorb in one take, and it borders on being too didactic." (New York Times)

"It's not didactic or propagandistic in its approach, but it's honest. It makes you want to know more. It makes you want to get involved." (Washington Post)

Didactic also refers to a method of teaching that involves repetition:

"This is unnecessarily repeated, but fortunately such didactic intrusions are kept to a minimum." (Los Angeles Times)

The word pedantic is from the Italian pedante for "teacher." What a coincidence. Teachers aren't usually pedantic, but sticklers are. Pedantic music snobs list twenty bands from Iceland that you have to go listen to now. Pedantic grammar nerds say to never split an infinitive. Pedantic is not a compliment. Check out these examples:

"Tristram Shandy makes fun of nearly everything, but especially the pompous and pedantic." (Slate)

"I know that some readers may find my language-stickler columns pedantic, or, even worse, tedious." (The Guardian)

"Readers responded: They found this arbitrary, arrogant, pedantic and just plain wrong." (Washington Post)

It's cool if a teacher leads a didactic discussion on Hamlet, but it's not cool if the teacher's pet takes over with a pedantic rant about how it should always be referred to as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

WORD FAMILY

didactic: didactically

USAGE EXAMPLES

The sound of an automobile is a complex, multilayered phenomenon, and Christmas is no time to be didactic.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016)

Trinity-wise, that counts as the son story, and while it’s didactic, it is the least opaque of the bunch.

New York Times(Dec 06, 2016)

For many in the 20th century, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists appealed because of Owen’s didactic presentations of social theory.

The Guardian(Dec 04, 2016)

adj instructive (especially excessively)

Syn

didactical
informative, instructive

serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

单词	didactic
释义	didactic (once / 3784 pages) adj When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher. When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS didactic / pedantic Both words relate to teaching, but didactic teaches a lesson and pedantic just shows off the facts. Didactic describes anything that tries to teach a lesson, sometimes a moral one. People don't always want a lesson. Didactic comes from the Greek didaktikos for "apt at teaching." Although being didactic is perfect for a teacher, it can be annoying when movies and books get into teacher mode. See below: "Being Here is tough to absorb in one take, and it borders on being too didactic." (New York Times) "It's not didactic or propagandistic in its approach, but it's honest. It makes you want to know more. It makes you want to get involved." (Washington Post) Didactic also refers to a method of teaching that involves repetition: "This is unnecessarily repeated, but fortunately such didactic intrusions are kept to a minimum." (Los Angeles Times) The word pedantic is from the Italian pedante for "teacher." What a coincidence. Teachers aren't usually pedantic, but sticklers are. Pedantic music snobs list twenty bands from Iceland that you have to go listen to now. Pedantic grammar nerds say to never split an infinitive. Pedantic is not a compliment. Check out these examples: "Tristram Shandy makes fun of nearly everything, but especially the pompous and pedantic." (Slate) "I know that some readers may find my language-stickler columns pedantic, or, even worse, tedious." (The Guardian) "Readers responded: They found this arbitrary, arrogant, pedantic and just plain wrong." (Washington Post) It's cool if a teacher leads a didactic discussion on Hamlet, but it's not cool if the teacher's pet takes over with a pedantic rant about how it should always be referred to as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. WORD FAMILY didactic: didactically USAGE EXAMPLES The sound of an automobile is a complex, multilayered phenomenon, and Christmas is no time to be didactic. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) Trinity-wise, that counts as the son story, and while it’s didactic, it is the least opaque of the bunch. New York Times(Dec 06, 2016) For many in the 20th century, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists appealed because of Owen’s didactic presentations of social theory. The Guardian(Dec 04, 2016) adj instructive (especially excessively) Syn didactical informative, instructive serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
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