Didactic vs. Pedantic

Didacticadjective

Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

Didacticadjective

Excessively moralizing.

Didacticadjective

(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Didacticnoun

(archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Didacticadjective

Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.

Didacticadjective

excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; - of people.

Didacticnoun

A treatise on teaching or education.

Didacticadjective

instructive (especially excessively)

Didacticadjective

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Didacticadjective

in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to appear patronizing

Pedanticadjective

Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

Pedanticadjective

Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

Pedanticadjective

Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

Pedanticadjective

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

Pedanticadjective

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Pedanticadjective

excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous