Flippant vs Didactic - What's the difference?
flippant | didactic |
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
In archaic terms the difference between flippant and didactic
is that flippant is glib; speaking with ease and rapidity while didactic is a treatise on teaching or education.As a noun didactic is
a treatise on teaching or education.flippant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* seriousDerived terms
* flippancySee also
* irreverent * pert * facetious * frivolousExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ant ----didactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.