What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Didactic vs Remedial - What's the difference?

didactic | remedial |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and remedial

is that didactic is didactic while remedial is curative; providing a remedy.

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.

    • remedial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curative; providing a remedy
  • intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

    • Related terms

    * remediable * remedy