| Main Entry: | moralize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | preach |
Synonyms: |
admonish, edify, lecture, pass judgment, pontificate, pontify, preachify, sermonize, teach |
| Main Entry: | moralizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offering moral advice |
Synonyms: |
didactic, pedantic, sententious, trite |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize lengthily |
Synonyms: |
admonish, berate, chide, exprobate, flay, give going-over, give piece of mind, moralize, preach, rank on, rate, reprimand, reprove, scold, sermonize, tell off |
Antonyms: |
praise |
| Main Entry: | orate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak |
Synonyms: |
address, expound, grandstand, lecture, moralize, pontificate, preach, sermonize, talk, vociferate |
| Main Entry: | pontificate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sermonize |
Synonyms: |
address, admonish, dogmatize, evangelize, get on a soapbox, give sermon, harangue, lecture, minister, moralize, preach, pulpiteer, teach |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
Synonyms: |
admonitory, didactic, disciplinary, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, sermonic, sermonizing, teaching |
| Main Entry: | preachy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sermonizing |
Synonyms: |
moralizing, pontifical, sententious |
| Main Entry: | didactical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructive |
Synonyms: |
didactic, donnish, homiletic, homiletical, lecturelike, moralizing, pedantic, pedantical, preachy |