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Didactic vs Docile - What's the difference?

didactic | docile |

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

English

Alternative forms

* didactick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

    • docile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
  • Ready to accept instruction or direction.

    • Synonyms

    * (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable * (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable

    Antonyms

    * (yielding to control): rebellious, wilful

    Derived terms

    * docilely * docility

    Related terms

    * docent * doctor * doctorate * doctrinaire * doctrinal * doctrine * document * indoctrinate

    Anagrams

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