Word Meanings - DIRECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow. 2. Able to be directed; manageable. Swords and bows Directive by the limbs. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIRECTIVE)

• Didactic
• Instructive
• directive
• moral

Related words: (words related to DIRECTIVE)

• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• MORAL
  1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
• DIDACTICS
  The art or science of teaching.
• DIDACTIC
  A treatise on teaching or education. Milton.
• DIDACTIC; DIDACTICAL
  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.
• DIDACTICALLY
  In a didactic manner.
• MORALIZER
  One who moralizes.
• DIDACTICISM
  The didactic method or system.
• MORALISM
  A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.
• MORALLY
  1. In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South. 2. According to moral rules; virtuously. "To live morally." Dryden. 3. In moral qualities;
• INSTRUCTIVE
  Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness
• MORALER
  A moralizer. Shak.
• MORALITY
  1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right. The morality of an action is founded in the freedom
• MORALE
  The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
• DIRECTIVE
  1. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow. 2. Able to be directed; manageable. Swords and bows Directive by the limbs. Shak.
• DIDACTICITY
  Aptitude for teaching. Hare.
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
• UNMORALIZED
  Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.
• IMMORALLY
  In an immoral manner; wickedly.
• IMMORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.
• DEMORALIZE
  To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example
• ILIOFEMORAL
  Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.
• BALMORAL
  1. A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress. 2. A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.
• HUMORAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology , the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.
• HUMORALISM
  The state or quality of being humoral.
• UNMORAL
  Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral. -- Un`mo*ral"i*ty, n.