Pedantic
11pedantic — adjective a pedantic interpretation of the rules Syn: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, casuistical,… …
12pedantic — pedant ► NOUN ▪ a person excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge. DERIVATIVES pedantic adjective pedantically adverb pedantry noun. ORIGIN French pédant, probably related to PEDAGOGUE(Cf. ↑pedagogue) …
13pedantic — adjective Date: circa 1600 1. of, relating to, or being a pedant 2. narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned 3. unimaginative, pedestrian • pedantically adverb …
14pedantic — pedantically, adv. pedanticalness, n. /peuh dan tik/, adj. 1. ostentatious in one s learning. 2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching. Also, pedantical. [1590 1600; PEDANT + IC] Syn. 2. didactic, doctrinaire. * * * …
15pedantic — adjective /pəˈdæn.tɪk/ a) Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. b) Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner. Syn: anal retentive …
16pedantic — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big sounding, bluestocking, book fed, book learned, book loving, book minded, book read, book wise, bookish, booky, bourgeois …
17pedantic — pe|dan|tic [ pə dæntık ] adjective giving too much importance to details and formal rules, especially of grammar ╾ pe|dan|ti|cal|ly [ pə dæntıkli ] adverb …
18pedantic — pe·dan·tic || pɪ dæntɪk adj. meticulous; strict, fussy; adhering strictly to information in books without using common sense …
19pedantic — [pɪ dantɪk] adjective of or like a pedant. Derivatives pedantically adverb …
20pedantic — a.; (also pedantical) Conceited, pragmatical, vain of knowledge, ostentatious of learning, over learned, pedagogic, pedagogical, priggish, pompous, stilted …
