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Didactic vs Preachy - What's the difference?

didactic | preachy | Synonyms |

Preachy is a synonym of didactic.



As adjectives the difference between didactic and preachy

is that didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry while preachy is tending toward excessive moralization.

As a noun didactic

is a treatise on teaching or education.

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.

    • preachy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending toward excessive moralization.
  • :My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices.

    • Synonyms

    *(tending toward excessive moralization ): didactic, moralizing, pious, sanctimonious, sermonizing

    Antonyms

    *(tending toward excessive moralization ): impious, irreverent, tolerant, laissez faire