More 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.
Source: tatoeba (6373693)
Didactic
//daɪˈdæk.tɪk//
Synonyms for "didactic" (103 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (51)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
14 entriesderived from
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- didakties adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Armenian
1 entries- խրատական adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ibrətli adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Belarusian
1 entries- дыдактычны adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дидактичен adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Catalan
2 entries- didàctic adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- didàctic adj (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 教学 adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Czech
1 entries- didaktický adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Danish
4 entries- belærende adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- didaktisk adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- didaktisk adj (excessively moralizing)
- docerende adj (excessively moralizing)
Dutch
1 entries- didactisch adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Esperanto
1 entries- didaktika adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Finnish
4 entries- didaktinen adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- kasvattava adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- opettavainen adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- opettavainen adj (excessively moralizing)
French
2 entries- didactique adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- livresque adj (teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application)
Galician
1 entries- didáctico adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
German
1 entries- didaktisch adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Italian
2 entries- didascalico adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- didattico adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Latin
1 entries- didascalicum adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Macedonian
1 entries- дидактичен adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Norwegian
1 entries- didaktisk adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Persian
2 entries- آموزشی adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- تعلیمی adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Polish
1 entries- dydaktyczny adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Portuguese
1 entries- didático adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Russian
4 entries- дидакти́ческий adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- ме́нторский adj (excessively moralizing)
- назида́тельный adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- наста́внический adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- didaktičan adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- didàktičkī adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Slovak
1 entries- didaktický adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Spanish
1 entries- didáctico adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Swedish
1 entries- didaktisk adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Turkish
4 entries- didaktik adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- eğitici adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- eğitsel adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
- öğretici adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дидактичний adj (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
"The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."
Source: tatoeba (7414262)
Do you think children's cartoons should be didactic? Or just for fun?
Source: tatoeba (11034697)
Mistakes have great didactic value.
Source: tatoeba (11043454)
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