Pedantic

Adjective

 * 1) Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
 * 2) * Edgar declares his linguistic theme in the opening exchanges between a primly pedantic British art historian (Charles Kay) and the local museum curator (Jan Ravens), who peppers the details of her discovery with phrases like, 'I should cocoa]' What she thinks she has found is a pieta that introduces the techniques of perspective and individualised emotion a century before Giotto, which, if true, would locate the origins of the modern world in this Balkan Hicksville. - IRVING WARDLE, The Independent
 * 3) Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
 * 4) Being finicky or fastidious with language.

Adverbs for Pedantic
unmistakably; unshakably; tiresomely; insufferably; proudly; intolerably; ostentatiously; self-righteously; insistently; vexatiously; primly; assertively; confidently; solemnly; sharply; monotonously; incurably; absurdly; unwarrantably; scrupulously; consciously; punctiliously; unbearably; meticulously; inordinately; extravagantly; daintily; precisely; primly; exquisitely; neatly; habitually; punctiliously; rigidly; strictly; rigorously; arbitrarily; admirably; marvellously; meticulously; priggishly; delicately; captiously; censoriously; scrupulously;

Thesaurus
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, 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, goody good-good, goody-goody, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, hair-splitting, harmonious, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, impersonal, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inkhorn, 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

Etymology
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Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/p@"d{ntIk/}}

Related terms

 * pedant
 * pedantry

Synonyms

 * anal-retentive, fussy, nit-picky, schoolmasterish
 * nit-picky, ostentatious, pedagogical, pretentious
 * fussy, nit-picky

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, ,


 * French:
 * Greek: σχολαστικός


 * Finnish: ,


 * French:


 * Czech:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,


 * French: pointilleux
 * Greek: σχολαστικός


 * : 賣弄學問的;炫學者
 * : pedantne
 * : pédant, pédante
 * : pedantisch


 * : 현학적인
 * : pedant
 * : pedantan, педантан
 * : cursi, maniático, pedante, puntilloso
 * : pedantisk

Anagrams

 * pentadic