didactic
Morally lecturing you
Didactic is an adjective whose core meanings are all about teaching and instruction.
Didactic can mean intended, designed, or inclined to teach: He tried to make the lecture lively but his didactic approach resulted in his spoiling every joke by explaining it.
Adverbs that frequently modify didactic, such as too, overly, and heavily, suggest that people are exposed to more didactic situations than they would prefer.
Promoting knowledge or skill
- instructionalIntended to educate
- informativeProviding useful knowledge
- tutorialInstructional step-by-step guide
- expositoryServing to explain
enlightening · edifying · teacherly · professorial · lecturing · explanatory · demonstrative · illustrative
Excessively moralizing in tone
- sermonizingLecturing on morals
- moralisticProne to lecturing others
- sanctimoniousFeigning moral superiority
- self-righteousSmugly certain of correctness
holier-than-thou · pontificating · dogmatic · admonitory · cautionary · paternalistic · condescending · patronizing
Relating to education or theory
- eruditeProfoundly knowledgeable
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
- pedanticExcessively concerned with minor rules
cerebral · analytical · theoretical · discursive · expository · studious · philosophical · argumentative
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- fableMoral tale with animals
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
- apologueAllegorical narrative with lesson
- exemplumIllustrative moral anecdote
moral tale · Aesop · cautionary tale · homily · propaganda · polemic · treatise · manifesto
educational
Promoting knowledge or skill
- instructionalIntended to educate
- informativeProviding useful knowledge
- tutorialInstructional step-by-step guide
expository · enlightening · edifying · teacherly · professorial · lecturing · explanatory · demonstrative · illustrative · elucidative
preachy
Excessively moralizing in tone
- sermonizingLecturing on morals
- moralisticProne to lecturing others
- sanctimoniousFeigning moral superiority
self-righteous · holier-than-thou · pontificating · dogmatic · admonitory · cautionary · paternalistic · condescending · patronizing · heavy-handed
academic
Relating to education or theory
- eruditeProfoundly knowledgeable
- learnedHaving much knowledge
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
pedantic · cerebral · analytical · theoretical · discursive · expository · studious · philosophical · argumentative · systematic
allegory
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- fableMoral tale with animals
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
- apologueAllegorical narrative with lesson
exemplum · moral tale · Aesop · cautionary tale · homily · propaganda · polemic · treatise · manifesto · sermon
- academicscholarly, academic, intellectual, erudite, learned
- speaking stylesarticulate, blunt, candid, conversational, casual
- literary adjectivespoetic, lyrical, prosaic, narrative, elegiac
- literary stylespastoral, lyrical prose, satirical, poetic prose, lyrical
- Siglo de OroCervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderon, John of the Cross, Golden Age
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
didacticentertaining
Providing amusement or enjoyment
noneducational · escapist · uninstructive · purposeless · frivolous
didacticsubtle
Not immediately obvious
understated · nuanced · suggestive · implicit · ambiguous
didacticuninformative
Conveying no knowledge
unenlightening · misleading · erroneous · unsound · pernicious
autodidact, didactics, didacticism, autodidacts, didactically, autodidacticism