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51learned — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having Great learning; said of people ] Syn. scholarly, erudite, scholastic, academic, accomplished, conversant with, lettered, instructed, collegiate, well read, well informed, bookish, pansophic, omniscient, polymathic …
52Ignorance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ignorance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ignorance ignorance nescience tabula rasa crass ignorance ignorance crasse Sgm: N 1 unacquaintance unacquaintance Sgm: N 1 unconsciousness unconsciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 …
53Ornament — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ornament >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ornament ornament Sgm: N 1 floridness c.adj floridness c.adj GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 turgidity turgidity turgescence Sgm: N 2 altiloquence altiloquence &c. >Adj …
54dryasdust — dry·as·dust || draɪəzdÊŒst n. dull or boring person; dull and pedantic speaker or writer adj. boring, dull; pedantic …
55dryasdusts — dry·as·dust || draɪəzdÊŒst n. dull or boring person; dull and pedantic speaker or writer adj. boring, dull; pedantic …
56scholastic — scho·las·tic || skÉ™ læstɪk n. meticulous person, pedantic person; follower of scholasticism adj. pertaining to school; pertaining to scholars; pertaining to education; pertaining to high school or secondary school; pedantic …
57scholastics — scho·las·tic || skÉ™ læstɪk n. meticulous person, pedantic person; follower of scholasticism adj. pertaining to school; pertaining to scholars; pertaining to education; pertaining to high school or secondary school; pedantic …
58nit-picking — informal noun fussy or pedantic fault finding. adjective overly fussy and pedantic. Derivatives nit pick verb nit picker noun …
59learned — learned, scholarly, erudite are comparable when they mean possessing or manifesting unusually wide and deep knowledge. Learned implies the possession of knowledge gained by study and research; it usually implies wider and deeper knowledge than do …
60pedagogic — adj 1. educational, educatory, instructional, teaching, preceptorial, tutorial; academic, academical, scholastic; professorial, instructorial, school teacherish; methodological, disciplinary. 2. pedantic, pedagoguish. See pedantic(defs. 1 6) …
