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Didactic vs Instructive - What's the difference?

didactic | instructive |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and instructive

is that didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry while instructive is conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

As nouns the difference between didactic and instructive

is that didactic is a treatise on teaching or education while instructive is a case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

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.

    • instructive

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
    • Well, that was an instructive lesson.

    Synonyms

    * informative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.