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Pedantic

Pedantic Meaning & Definition
Pedantic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pedantic?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pedantic: academic | donnish | scholarly

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pedantic: academic | accordant | affected | anal | arid | bedizened | bibliophagic | big-sounding | bluestocking | book-fed | bookish | book-learned | book-loving | book-minded | book-read | book-wise | booky | bourgeois | compulsive | concordant | conformist | conventional | conventionalized | convoluted | corresponding | declamatory | devoted to studies | didactic | diligent | doctrinaire | donnish | dry | dryasdust | dull | elegant | elevated | erudite | euphemistic | euphuistic | exact | exquisite | extrinsic | fastidious | finical | finicky | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | formal | formalist | formalistic | formulary | fulsome | fussy | garish | gaudy | Gongoresque | goody good-good | goody-goody | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | hair-splitting | harmonious | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | impersonal | in accord | in keeping | in line | in step | inkhorn | Johnsonian | kosher | labyrinthine | learned | legalistic | lexiphanic | literary | lofty | lurid | magniloquent | mandarin | meretricious | meticulous | mincing | namby-pamby | nit-picking | nominal | orotund | orthodox | ostentatious | outward | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overnice | overprecise | overrefined | overscrupulous | overwrought | owlish | pedagogic | pedantical | perfectionist | plastic | pompous | preachy | preceptorial | precieuse | precious | precisian | precisianistic | precisionistic | pretentious | professorial | professorlike | punctilious | puristic | quibbling | rabbinic | rhetorical | scholarly | scholastic | schoolish | schoolmastering | schoolmasterish | schoolmasterlike | schoolmasterly | schoolmistressy | schoolteacherish | schoolteachery | scrupulous | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | simpering | sonorous | square | stiff | stilted | straight | studious | stuffy | stylized | superficial | surface | tall | teacherish | teacherlike | teachery | teachy | tortuous | traditionalist | tutorial | uptight | vain

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Pedantic In Webster's Dictionary

\Pe*dan"tic\, Pedantical \Pe*dan"tic*al\, a. 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. ``Figures pedantical.'' --Shak.

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