Usually means: Intended to teach or instruct.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word didactic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. didactic: Merriam-Webster
  2. didactic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. didactic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. didactic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. didactic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Didactic, didactic: Wordnik
  7. didactic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. didactic: Wiktionary
  9. didactic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. didactic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. didactic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. didactic: Dictionary.com
  13. didactic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. didactic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Didactic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Didactic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. didactic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. didactic: Rhymezone
  19. Didactic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. didactic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. didactic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. didactic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. didactic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. didactic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. didactic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. didactic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. didactic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. didactic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. didactic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. didactic: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. didactic: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. didactic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See didactical as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
adjective:  Excessively moralizing.
adjective:  (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
noun:  (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

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