Word Meanings - DIDACTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A treatise on teaching or education. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIDACTIC)

• Doctrinal
• Didactic
• catechetical
• theological
• Sententious
• Pithy
• pregnant
• thoughtful
• axiomatic
• antithetical
• pointed
• nervous
• didactic
• Sentimental
• moral
• instructive
• romantic

Related words: (words related to DIDACTIC)

• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• DOCTRINAL
  1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature
• MORAL
  1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
• DIDACTICS
  The art or science of teaching.
• DIDACTIC
  A treatise on teaching or education. Milton.
• DOCTRINALLY
  In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.