Didactic
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A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.
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adj.
Intended to instruct or inform or inclined to moralize excessively. (e.g., a didactic story)
A word that is overused by English majors as a pretense to sound intellectual when they are actually stating an obvious and trivial fact.
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a speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a lesson
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