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Didactic vs Teacherlike - What's the difference?

didactic | teacherlike |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and teacherlike

is that didactic is didactic while teacherlike is resembling a teacher or some aspect of one, such as didactic behaviour.

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.

    • teacherlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a teacher or some aspect of one, such as didactic behaviour.

    • Synonyms

    * teacherly