Didactic vs Docile - What's the difference?
didactic | docile |
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
As adjectives the difference between didactic and docile
is that didactic is didactic while docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.didactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.
