didact

[ dahy-dakt ]

noun

1. a didactic person; one overinclined to instruct others.

Word History and Origins

Origin of didact¹

First recorded in 1950–55; probably back formation from didactic; autodidact

Example Sentences

Mungiu — a towering figure in the Romanian New Wave — is a tough, unsparing filmmaker, but he isn’t a scold or didact, the kind who delivers grindingly obvious life lessons about the horrors of other people.

From New York Times

Yet Butler was neither a pessimist nor a didact.

From New York Times

On forums they commiserated about their “Squips”, a reference to the computerized man the drug makes manifest in Jeremy’s head as a didact of chillness.

From The Guardian

Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons.

From The New Yorker

“Cole had always been understood as an untrained genius, a self-taught didact,” said Ms. Dunbar, owner of the company Historic Design in Lexington, Va. “But considering his background, this training that gave him the basic tools he needed to start painting, it’s not surprising that he got involved in decorating his home. What is extremely revelatory about this is it shows how he integrated the two.”

From New York Times