didact
Preachy instruction giver
A didact is a person who instructs or moralizes, often with an implication of being overly teacherly or preachy.
The word is rarer than its adjective form didactic, which describes anything intended to teach or inclined toward instruction: The novel's didactic passages slowed the plot.
A didact may genuinely want to educate, but the term often carries a whiff of condescension—someone who lectures when conversation would do.
Educator, often pedantic
- teacherOne who instructs others
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- preceptorPractical training supervisor
schoolmaster · tutor · lecturer · professor · guide · master · guru · coach
Excessively moralizing in tone
- sermonizingLecturing on morals
- moralisticProne to lecturing others
- admonitoryServing to warn
- prescriptiveDictating correct usage
sanctimonious · sententious · hectoring · pontificating · lecturing · edifying · improving · cautionary
Profoundly knowledgeable
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
- academicRelating to education or theory
- scholarLearned, studious person
savant · pundit · cerebral · studious · bookish · doctrinaire · dogmatic · pedant
Art of instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- lessonUnit of teaching
- tutorialInstructional step-by-step guide
syllabus · lecturing · teaching · edification · catechism · homily · sermon · exhortation
pedagogue
Educator, often pedantic
- teacherOne who instructs others
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
preceptor · schoolmaster · tutor · lecturer · professor · guide · master · guru · coach · trainer
preachy
Excessively moralizing in tone
- sermonizingLecturing on morals
- moralisticProne to lecturing others
- admonitoryServing to warn
prescriptive · sanctimonious · sententious · hectoring · pontificating · lecturing · edifying · improving · cautionary · parable
erudite
Profoundly knowledgeable
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
- academicRelating to education or theory
scholar · savant · pundit · cerebral · studious · bookish · doctrinaire · dogmatic · pedant · theorist
pedagogy
Art of instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- lessonUnit of teaching
tutorial · syllabus · lecturing · teaching · edification · catechism · homily · sermon · exhortation · tutelage
didactlistener
One who attends aurally
learner · student · interlocutor · dialogist · questioner
didactic, autodidact, didactics, autodidactic, autodidacts, didactically, autodidacticism, autodidactism