ADJ.
great, lay, quiet
VERB + DIDACTIC
avoids, mistakes, talked
DIDACTIC + NOUN
fashion, lessons, poem, poetry
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
tolerably
adj
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
didactic poetry
Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.
Excessively moralizing.
Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
noun
A treatise on teaching or education.
adjective — instructive (especially excessively)
didactic poetry
WiktionaryFalling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobil
WiktionaryThe finest didactic poem in any language.
WiktionaryMore than once during the years that I had lived with him in Baker Street I had observed that a small vanity underlay my companion's quiet and didactic manner.
Tatoeba · #6373693"The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."
Tatoeba · #7414262Do you think children's cartoons should be didactic? Or just for fun?
Tatoeba · #11034697i Register
In some senses, didactic is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.