The Collaborative International Dictionary
Didactical
Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, Didactical \Di*dac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to teach; akin to L. docere to teach: cf. F. didactique. See Docile.]
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Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. ``Didactical writings.''
--Jer. Taylor.The finest didactic poem in any language.
--Macaulay. -
excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]
Syn: didactic.
Wiktionary
didactical
a. didactic
WordNet
didactical
adj. instructive (especially excessively) [syn: didactic]
Usage examples of "didactical".
When he wrote for men, as he did in his later work, he became dull, didactical, polemical.